Canada

CCPA (2020) COVID-19 First Nations and Poor Housing, Winnipeg. May. PDF

Statistics Canada (2020). Housing characteristics and staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ottawa, May 4. PDF

Statistics Canada (2020). Financial vulnerability and work interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ottawa, May 6. PDF

Post-COVID-19 Housing Futures – A National Call to Action, April 2020. A document signed by housing organizations, advocates and researchers. PDF

Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (2020) Getting Back to Housing: How Canadian communities are adapting Coordinated Access to accelerate connections to permanent housing, A CAEH COVID-19 guide, May 5. WebLink

Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (2020) Recommendations for the Federal Government to assist housing providers during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath. May 13. PDF

Falvo, N. (2020). Ten things to know about CMHC’s Insured Mortgage Purchase Program [a response to COVID-19]. Blog, April 6. PDF

Lord, P., & Saad, L. (2020). Outline of Government Programs Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada. Available at SSRN 3567474. PDF

McIssac, E. (2020). First things first - Help people pay their rent [Three proposals]. Toronto: Maytree Foundation, April 13. PDF

Ramos, H. et al. (2020). Coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity to create affordable cities. The Conversation, April 1. PDF

Cities in the time of COVID-19: How does our approach to housing and homelessness change? Canadian Urban Institute panel, May 5, 2020. A one hour discussion: Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing; Margaret Pfoh, Aboriginal Housing Management Association; Tim Richter, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness; and John van Nostrand, Parcel Developments. WebLink

Conversation on COVID-19 and Women's Homelessness in Canada
A discussion of the gendered nature of homelessness and housing problems by MP Leah Gazan, Leilani Farha, Dr. Kaitlin Schwan, and Anjum Sultana. WebLink

Ontario and Toronto

Coalition of public interest organizations (2020). Legal Action re failure of City of Toronto to respond adequately to COVID-19 in homeless shelters, April 2020 Letter. PDF of Goldblatt Partners Letter on behalf of agencies.

- - Coalition: Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), Black Legal Action Centre, HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Aboriginal Legal Services.
  - "We have made the difficult decision to initiate legal proceedings against the City if the City does not take more urgent action to address this deepening crisis. If we are forced to litigate this issue, we will argue that the City is operating its shelter system and maintaining Standards that are discriminatory and violate the right to life and security of the person of shelter residents under sections 7 and 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and also breach the Ontario Human Rights Code."

Crowe, C. (2020). City of Toronto COVID-19 Homeless Response - Issues and Gaps, Backgrounder, May 4. PDF

Ontario Human Rights Commission (2020). Policy statement on a human rights-based approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic, Toronto, April. PDF

United Kingdom

Out of harm’s way? Critical remarks on harm and the meaning of home during the 2020 Covid-19 social distancing measures, by C. Gurney, UK CaCHE Working Paper, April 2020. PDF

Coronavirus: A historic opportunity to end homelessness for good in UK, by L. Teixeira, UK CaCHE, Blog, April 2020. PDF

Kirby, T. (2020). Efforts escalate to protect homeless people from COVID-19 in UK. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. PDF

Jones, Owen (2020) Coronavirus is not some great leveller - it is exacerbating inequality, The Guardian. PDF

United States

Galbraith, J (2020) The Pandemic and Capitalism: Will we learn from this crisis that our present precarity capitalism must be brought to an end?Democracy, April. PDF

Druss, B. G. (2020). Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Populations With Serious Mental Illness. JAMA psychiatry. PDF

Farkas, K. J., & Romaniuk, J. R. (2020). Social Work, Ethics and Vulnerable Groups In the Time of Coronavirus and Covid-19. Society Register, 4(2), 67-82. PDF

Tsai, J., & Wilson, M. (2020). COVID-19: a potential public health problem for homeless populations. The Lancet Public Health. PDF