C-423Protection of the Right to Adequate Housing Act
An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act (right to adequate housing)
Private member's bill, introduced in the House of Commons on December 11, 2024
- Status
- At second reading in the House of Commons since December 11, 2024
What it does
Amends the National Housing Strategy Act to require federal housing policy to address affordable housing supply, tenant protection, and investor impacts.
What it does
- Adds language to the National Housing Strategy Act saying adequate housing must be affordable and not treated mainly as a commodity or investment.
- Requires the housing minister to consult provincial and municipal housing leaders, Indigenous organisations, and communities on affordable rentals, rent regulation, and tenants’ rights.
- Requires the strategy to include measures that put tenants, especially vulnerable groups, ahead of residential rental investors and reduce incentives for those investors.
- Creates guidelines to strengthen tenant protections, including rent control, responses to evictions made in bad faith, limits on unfair data-sharing practices, and protections against discrimination in rental housing.
- Requires the minister to report recommendations for changes to federal laws, policies, and programs that would further the housing policy.
Who it affects
- Tenants
- Low-income households
- Renters in vulnerable groups
- Provincial governments
- Municipal governments
- Indigenous organisations and communities
- Residential property owners
- Civil society organisations
Background
The National Housing Strategy Act already says the national housing strategy should support the progressive realisation of the right to adequate housing. This bill changes its preamble and adds new duties for the minister and the strategy.
Where it is
House of Commons
First reading
Completed.
Second reading
Current stage. Now here
Committee
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Report stage
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Third reading
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Senate
First reading
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Second reading
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Committee
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Third reading
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Royal assent
Royal assent
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Introduced by an MP who is not a minister. These bills compete in a lottery for debate time, and most do not become law. How a bill becomes law
How the House voted
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What MPs said
Each party’s first speech on this bill in the House, from Hansard. Excerpts are the speaker’s opening sentences, unedited.
NDPBonita Zarrillo· December 11, 2024
“Moved for leave to introduce Bill C-423, An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act (right to adequate housing). Today I am introducing a bill to protect Canadians from greedy corporate landlords whose tactics unfairly raise rents, evict tenants and harm Canadians.”
Read the full speech on openparliament.ca
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LEGISinfo status: Outside the Order of Precedence. Bill data from LEGISinfo, votes from openparliament.ca and the House of Commons. Last updated October 13, 2026.