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The Housing Gap That’s Failing Women

Around 40% of Toronto’s 15,400 people experiencing homelessness are women — and that number doesn’t capture the full picture. Thousands more are “hidden homeless”: women, often with children, who remain in abusive or unsafe situations because leaving means having nowhere to go.

Every day, women in our city are forced to choose between a roof over their heads and their own safety. No one should have to make that choice.

Together, we can change that.

Your support helps provide affordable, supportive housing that gives women and their children a safe place to call home — and a real chance at a better future.

When Women Show Up for Each Other

Women have always been each other’s greatest source of strength. We know how to show up. We know how to hold space. We know, better than anyone, what it means to need support and what it means to receive it.

Right now, women in Toronto are facing circumstances that no one should face alone — unsafe homes, impossible choices, and a system that too often lets them fall through the cracks.

Women Supporting Women is our answer to that. It’s a collective decision to extend our circle of care to the women who need it most, and to use our voices, our networks, and our generosity as a force for real, lasting change.

What Your Support Makes Possible

With 31 units of affordable, supportive housing, Hope House provides women in Toronto with something they may not have had in months or years: a safe place to breathe.

But a safe home is only the beginning — and that’s where your support comes in.

Every woman at Hope House is matched with a dedicated caseworker who helps her navigate finances, educational goals, and access to health services including primary care, psychiatry, and substance use counselling. These wraparound supports are what make the difference between temporary relief and lasting change.

Your support sustains this ongoing cycle of care — funding the services, the staffing, and the wraparound supports that make Hope House far more than a building.

It is a place where women heal.

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Stories of Hope

Magret arrived in Canada with very little and faced a path that felt, at times, impossible to navigate. As a woman with no income and no established support system, she found herself in a shelter — grateful for the roof, but always aware that it was temporary. The clock was ticking. Her time there was running out, and every day brought the same relentless question turning over and over in her mind: where am I going to go next?

Magret, Tenant at Hope House

About St. Felix Centre

St. Felix Centre provides support to Toronto’s most marginalized communities with a focus on compassion, respect for human dignity, and solidarity with the most vulnerable in our society.