YWCA Housing Action Fund
The YWCA Housing Action Fund aims to raise $5 million to accelerate the development of new affordable housing for women and their children. With your support, the dream of a safe home will become a reality for these families.
A Basic Human Right
Housing is a basic human right. Yet every day in BC, 200 women fleeing violence are turned away from shelters and transition houses because there isn’t enough space for them. These women need safe, permanent housing.
Single mother-led households are almost twice as likely to be inadequately housed (36% compared to 20% of all households).
Stable housing is essential for women-led families to leave violence, pursue education and employment and have the stability to build the lives they envision for themselves and their children.
YWCA Housing at a glance
Housing communities
in 8 cities in BC.
Safe, affordable homes
Women and children
make their home at one of our YWCA housing communities.
Your gift will help ensure women and children live somewhere safe and have support to work toward their goals and dreams.
The YWCA Housing Action Fund (the “Fund”) has been established to accelerate our ability to pursue new housing opportunities that further YWCA’s charitable purposes including by supporting costs related to pursuing such opportunities. By designating your unrestricted donation to the Fund, your gift will help ensure women and children live somewhere safe and have support to work toward their goals and dreams. To ensure your gift has the greatest possible impact, the YWCA may, in its sole discretion, reallocate all or a portion of the amounts maintained within the Fund to other efforts aligned with our affordable housing priorities, if such reallocations are determined to be necessary or appropriate.