In order to make an informed choice at election time it is important for voters to ask questions of their federal candidates when they come to the door, call or at all-candidates meetings.

Here is a sampling of questions related to housing and homelessness that you can ask candidates to help you make your decision:

• What will you/your party do to improve homelessness in Canada?  
• Will you/your party work to develop a National Housing Strategy/Plan to End Homelessness? What will it include?
• Will you/your party support a goal, including providing funding and supports to achieve it, wherein no Canadian individual or family stays in an emergency homeless shelter or sleeps outside longer than one week before moving into a safe, decent, affordable home with the support needed to sustain it?
• Will your party allow communities to prioritize the populations most in need locally, rather than focusing solely on chronic and episodic homelessness?
• Will you/your party invest in building new affordable housing across the country? How much money will you invest? How will you go about creating more housing?
• Will you/your party support a national Point-in-Time count using a common methodology?
• Will you/your party support a common definition of homelessness such as the Canadian Definition of Homelessness?
• Will you/your party work to improve conditions for Aboriginal Peoples on and off-reserve?
• Will you/your party ensure that money is provided to communities to assist with data collection, management and evaluation?
• Will you/your party invest in prevention to help stem the flow of people into homelessness?
• Do you support the recommendations of the State of Homelessness in Canada: 2014 and State of Homelessness in Canada: 2013?

If you are posting these questions on Twitter, please make sure to add the Twitter handle of the candidate or party whom you wish to address. You can find contact information for the candidates in your riding under 'Contact your Candidates'.