An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act

Bill C-398 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill amending the National Housing Strategy Act (S.C. 2019, c. 29, s. 313) to expand the federal right-to-adequate-housing framework. The 2019 Act enshrined the right to adequate housing as a fundamental human right in federal statute and created the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate plus the National Housing Council. The bill complemented related Bill C-205 of 45-1 and Bill C-423 of 44-1 by adding statutory authority for the Federal Housing Advocate to issue binding compliance orders (currently the Advocate can only investigate and report), expanded the National Housing Strategy budget targets, and federal-provincial coordination on housing-rights litigation under Charter section 7. Did not pass second reading.