Bill C-423

Protection of the Right to Adequate Housing Act

An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act (right to adequate housing)

Sponsor

Bonita Zarrillo  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Dec. 11, 2024

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Summary

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This enactment amends the National Housing Strategy Act to require that, in order to reflect more closely the international law principle that the key elements of the right to adequate housing are affordability and security of tenure, the housing policy of the Government of Canada and the National Housing Strategy developed under that Act address the erosion of the supply of affordable housing and the impact on the housing market of investments in residential property by institutional investors.

Elsewhere

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Protection of the Right to Adequate Housing ActRoutine Proceedings

December 11th, 2024 / 3:55 p.m.


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NDP

Bonita Zarrillo NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-423, An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act (right to adequate housing).

Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing a bill to protect Canadians from greedy corporate landlords whose tactics unfairly raise rents, evict tenants and harm Canadians. I thank the member for Vancouver East for seconding the bill and for her work to shine a light on the financialization of housing in Canada.

The bill would enshrine the fundamental human right to housing into the National Housing Strategy Act. It is one of the fundamental rights that the Liberal government deliberately left out of that very same housing act. The bill would provide the government with the tools to stop renovictions, demovictions and the unfair business practices that are making people homeless.

The NDP wants the housing needs of people to be prioritized over the profits of predatory corporate landlords, REITs and even unethical Liberal government pension funds. The Liberals' national housing strategy has failed to uphold people's rights to adequate housing, in favour of making real estate investors rich. Like the Conservatives before them, Liberals prioritize multi-million dollar corporations over fundamental human rights of Canadians.

Everyone, regardless of income, background or circumstance, deserves access to a safe, accessible and affordable place to call home. This is the human right that the bill would enshrine and make a reality.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)