Calgary Housing Action Initiative

What You Can Do: Take Action!

Check out our Calendar for upcoming meetings and events you can participate in.

Check out our Forums to share ideas for action.

Use our "Action Resources" links on the right-hand side of this page.

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Learn

A critical mass around affordable housing is building in the media and we are posting as much as we can in our media coverage section.

We are also gathering documentation, reports and web links with information about the housing crisis and proposed solutions. See our Learning & Information Resources section for details.

News & Updates

January 22, 2008

A collective of homeless women and allies is hosting a rally on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, January 24, 2008, noon-1:00pm. Printable PDF Poster

Older news

See our Front page news archives for older announcements.

CHAI Videos and Photos

There are photos from CHAI’s march and rally for housing, on September 20, 2007, during the lead-up to the municipal election.

Also, check out images from On the road again..., a community performance art project where participants took second-hand furniture outfitted with wheels on an adventure through sites of transformation in downtown Calgary.

This project was presented in partnership with The New Gallery, Calgary Dollars, Eau Claire Market, and of course CHAI.

View our video of CHAI's Rally for Housing in New Edinborough Park on June 10. Many thanks to Peggy, Shaylene and Erwin for all their hard work and patience.

Photos of the event, as well as a video letter to Housing Minister Ray Danyluk are also available.

Housing is a fundamental Human Right

See item 1 of article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

From that, we conclude that:

Those who act in a manner that prevents people from having adequate access to housing are committing a human rights violation.

Those who have the awareness and capacity to act to prevent human rights violations, but fail to do so, are complicit in violating human rights.

Our governments certainly have the capacity to address the housing crisis, and we find it hard to believe that they don't have awareness of the crisis (and they certainly will become aware as our campaign progresses), so it falls to them to take immediate action or be guilty of failing to uphold human rights.