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[Thesis is in French] The Healthy Cities movement encourages local governments to establish concrete measures to reduce health inequalities. Many Canadian municipalities involved in this movement are currently experiencing affordable housing shortages. These crises, which particularly affect female heads of single-parent families, exacerbate health inequalities and fuelling care deficits. Care refers to the attitudes, activities, and relationships that sustain people's lives and dignity. While many communities would like to address these issues by improving the provision of social housing, the current neoliberal context poses significant barriers to such initiatives. This thesis interrogates the potential of strategies associated with the Healthy Cities movement and care ethics to overcome this context. This research compares the processes undertaken to create new social housing for female heads of single-parent families in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.