It's a road which stretches across the country and one that many women are on, say local women's organizations.

Early Friday afternoon, the Trans-Canada Homelessness Highway Map, developed by the national Working Group on Women, was unveiled by the Yukon Status of Women Council and the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation.

The map shows the road they say women often find themselves on heading toward homelessness.

'What we see (on the street) is the tip of the iceberg,' said Charlotte Hrenchuk,of the Yukon Status of Women Council.

The road map travels across the country through each region and names sites after the causes of homelessness.

Priceyton, for example which is located in the Yukon, shows rent being too high in the private market and waiting lists as being too long for subsidized housing.

On Friday, 'residents' of each listed community issued demands.

'Women demand a national housing program to provide subsidized housing and rent supplements to everyone who needs them,' said one woman living in the symbolic Priceyton.

Other communities on the map, from east to west, include Unwelcome Bay, HouseBound, Low Wageville, Clawback Valley, St. Precaire, Evictoria, Lockdown Island, Slum City, Fort Welfare, Mount Disqualified, Barriersburg and Pension Inlet.

They showcase the problems women have finding housing.

The organizations say it's difficult for women to find proper housing due to eligibility requirements for employment insurance and pensions, discrimination, welfare and disability rates not being enough to pay rent, unsafe and overcrowded housing, household incomes dropping, crimes of survival, low minimum wage and issues around childcare.

Their list of demands include:

• effective laws to stop job discrimination with an adjudication process that is accessible to all workers;

• a national affordable childcare program throughout Canada;

• a living wage in every province and territory;

• an end to the clawback by governments so all parents receiving social assistance can keep the National Child Benefit supplement;

• government economic policies that create and keep good jobs in Canada;

• programs to protect housing when an income changes, and effective legislation to protect tenants across the country;

• an end to laws that criminalize women's attempts to survive;

• access to safe, quality, affordable housing across Canada in all communities;

• federal regulations that require provinces and territories to provide social assistance that meets the cost of living;

• a truly universal unemployment insurance program that covers all unemployed workers;

• landlords who uphold human rights standards and governments which ensure the standards are enforced;

'Governments must provide more housing options including homeownership programs for low-income women,' reads the map.

And finally;

• adequate pensions for all women, and that pensions be paid for years that were spent caregiving as well.

Natalie Edelson, Kaushee's Place assistant executive director, pointed out that each lake on the map is named after a woman who went missing or died because of homelessness, poverty, violence and/or racism.

In stating that, she hoped each politician heard the message being delivered through the map. She also encouraged voters to research the various parties and candidates on the issue before going to the polls today.

Joseph Graham, who has worked with youth throughout the city over the past five years in roles with the outreach van and the Kwanlin Dun First Nation, encouraged residents to take a proactive role in addressing homelessness by volunteering for organizations. There's volunteer work in everything from administration to dealing directly with those affected, he said.

Graham has seen many people bounced around the government system, he said.

'There are gaps in the system,' he said, adding that he knows of some teenaged girls who became pregnant so they could get housing.

Yukon MP Larry Bagnell was the only federal election candidate at the map's unveiling and took questions from the audience.