Support for people who have housing concerns
Together, the housing team support clients with navigating the Yukon housing system. Supports include:
-help with finding housing (including applying for affordable housing and income support programs, getting ID, and housing searches)
-navigating a move into a new unit (including lease signing, payment of the damage deposit, understanding your tenancy agreement, and accessing furniture and housing supplies for your new home)
-applying for emergency housing funding to avoid eviction (including disputing an eviction, paying rental arrears, bed bug treatments, and emergency repairs)
-support with food security
-accessing other supports and services
Tenant Wisdom Education is an opportunity for Blood Ties‘ clients to learn about finding accommodation, negotiating with landlords, their rights and responsibilities as tenants, and more.
Education includes workshops and trivia games, focusing on landlord and tenant relationships, problem solving, conflict resolution, and communication skills. It also teaches basic life skills necessary for finding and maintaining adequate housing.
The LWEH program aims to support clients through creating sustainable, safe, long term housing. The goal of the program is to reduce barriers for both the client and the landlord, and to develop effective communication and collaboration between both parties.
LWEH is geared towards clients who are housed and living relatively independently, but find themselves struggling with barriers surrounding housing. The LWEH support can help with housing emergencies, landlord and neighbor conflicts, as well as lease agreements.
Important info and handy tips for finding a home and keeping it
Finding a place to rent in Whitehorse is easier if you know where to look and how to communicate with landlords. Use this guide to find the resources to help you get into a place to call home.
Being a tenant is less frustrating when you know your rights and responsibilities as a renter, and where to find help if you need it. Use this guide to help you find your way as a tenant and learn where to go for help.
Before you pick up the phone to call a potential landlord, write down what you are going to say. Use the examples in this guide to prepare yourself for the conversation
The Steve Cardiff Tiny Home Community provides supported case-management housing to people living with addictions, complex health challenges, and histories of homelessness.
It began as the Steve Cardiff House, one tiny home on a borrowed piece of an undeveloped lot. Today five homes, each with 240 square feet of living space, are nestled together at Jarvis Street and 6th Avenue in Whitehorse.
These tiny homes offer multiple benefits. They have room for one person to live comfortably while avoiding couch surfers, partying, and similar situations that are challenging for people with poor boundaries. They also allow clients to live independently and are affordable to maintain.
Blood Ties supports a very “hard to house” population. Our clients experience discrimination in the housing market and tend to be easily displaced from housing. The Steve Cardiff Tiny House Community provides affordable supported housing for at-risk clients in urgent need.
