News

WNHHN welcomes ambitious Budget 2024, calls for urgency to meet gender-based targets
April 16, 2024

Our take on the 2024 federal budget announced today—the potential and possibilities.   By Khulud Baig and Stefania Seccia  The Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network welcomes an ambitious budget … More


#InvestinWomen: This Int’l Women’s Day let’s fund housing and solutions
March 8, 2024

This year’s theme for March 8 is #InvestinWomen: Accelerate Progress, which is timely considering divestment in necessary housing and policy solutions has led to today’s crisis This International Women’s Day … More


Watch: Organizing Meeting – Intersectional Feminist Housing Agenda for Canada
February 15, 2024

ICYMI: On February 13, the WNHHN, Pan-Canadian Voice on Women’s Housing, and the National Indigenous Women’s Housing Network hosted a strategizing session on the Intersectional Feminist Housing Agenda By Stefania … More


Statement: Rights-based approach to encampments will save lives
January 15, 2024

As cities respond to encampments during extreme weather, Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network calls for a stop to the sweeps   In light of the recent extreme cold weather … More


Kaitlin Schwan: Goodbyes & Visions for 2024
December 22, 2023

Hello my dear friends,   I write this message today in both grief and gratitude to share some bittersweet news: I’ve made the difficult decision to step down from my … More


Feminist Housing Agenda: Send a Letter to Federal Leaders
December 13, 2023

Launch: Intersectional Feminist Housing Agenda Goes to Parliament
December 7, 2023

Housing & homelessness advocates and lived experts from across Canada deliver 15 calls to action to the Federal Housing Minister, outlining & demanding solutions to the gendered housing crisis   … More


The Loneliness Project: Young Women and Gender-diverse Youth’s Experiences of Loneliness in Transitions out of Homelessness
October 31, 2023

Loneliness is such a devastating issue of our time that in 2018 Britain appointed a Minister of Loneliness in recognition of the enormous physical and emotional toll that being lonely has on … More