 Creating social housing for women 
By comparing supportive housing programs in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, this article highlights how their creation process integrates care. We show that these programs arise in a context where some organizations recognize the impacts of the shortage of affortable housing, particularly on the female head of single-parent families. In continuity with their mission, they have embarked on the creation of housing programs to transform socio-material, temporal, and spatial conditions to better support the women’s and community organizations’ capacities to care. The analysis indicates that these processes have managed to avoid confining care to the private sphere by engaging a plurality of spaces and stakeholders along the public-private continuum. The care lens helps to fill the knowledge gap on social housing development in Canada and to explore generally neglected practices and values.