From May 29 to June 2, 2023, the Annual Conference of the Canadian Sociological Association was held at York University in Toronto, where various academic, research, educational and administrative issues were discussed. The conference took place within the framework of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which was attended by speakers and listeners from Canada and other countries. For the first time since 2003, a research cluster on sociology of housing was presented at the conference, the work of which within the framework of the association was launched at the end of 2021. Both scientific and pedagogical workers and students, as well as practitioners and independent researchers took part in the work of two sections devoted to sociological studies of housing and homelessness. The problems of chronic homelessness of women, mobile homelessness, risks of homelessness among young people and attitudes towards the homeless, housing conditions of different social groups and housing precarity were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the state housing policy, as well as the federal strategy "Housing first", the results of which are controversial. The reports presented at the Sociology of Housing Research Cluster are of great interest both to researchers interested in housing issues in liberal democratic countries, including Canada, and to sociologists interested in the development of housing sociology in Russia based on foreign experience.

Keywords: Canada; sociology of housing; housing policy; housing first; homelessness; interaction with the homeless; housing conditions; housing precarity