Eviction Research Lab + Tenants’ Rights Mapping Project
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Housing Precarity Research Cluster
Features two major projects that bring together academic and community partners to examine the landscape of evictions and tenant rights across Canada.
1. Eviction Research Lab
Conducts national comparative research on eviction processes and legislation to assess which policies and practices are most effective at preventing eviction. The lab will develop a national eviction database for academic and community researchers to better understand the processes that contribute to housing precarity.
2. Tenants’ Rights Mapping Project
Assesses the strength of tenant protections across Canada, identifies jurisdictional differences in eviction risk, and engages in projects that connect and support national and local tenants’ groups.
What is housing precarity?
Housing precarity can be defined as not having a stable, secure, or suitable place to live. This includes sheltered and unsheltered homelessness, as well as people living in inadequate or unaffordable housing, such as people struggling to pay high rent, people living in housing in need of repairs, and families living in housing units that are too small for their needs. (Definition source: The National Right to Housing Network)
