C-398An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act

What it does

• Adds definitions for federal land, homeless encampment, and Indigenous peoples in the National Housing Strategy Act.
• Requires the National Housing Strategy to include measures to prevent removing homeless encampments on federal land and to identify alternatives after meaningful engagement with residents.
• Requires the Strategy to include processes for the active involvement and support of Indigenous peoples in housing programs that affect them, and for responses to respect their rights.
• Requires the minister, when setting these measures and processes, to consult provincial housing ministers and work with organisations that represent Indigenous peoples.
• Expands the triennial report to include success metrics, plus longitudinal data broken down by groups, including Indigenous peoples and other groups named in the Act.
• Requires the minister to monitor how housing policy affects vulnerable groups, Indigenous peoples, people with housing need, and people who have experienced homelessness.