An Act to amend the National Housing Strategy Act (right to adequate housing)

Bill C-423 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill amending the National Housing Strategy Act (S.C. 2019, c. 29, s. 313) to expand the 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 called for stronger statutory enforcement of the housing-rights framework (currently the Federal Housing Advocate cannot order remedies, only investigate and report), expanded the National Housing Strategy budget targets above the original $82-billion 11-year commitment, and federal-provincial coordination on housing-rights litigation under section 7 of the Charter.