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Ten Important Things in London’s Housing Stability Plan
This vlog outlines 10 important things to note about London, Ontario's recently released five-year plan to tackle homelessness and housing affordability. Read the full plan, "Housing Stability For All: The Housing Stability Action Plan for the City of London, 2019-2024" here.
The Use of Homeless Shelters by Indigenous Peoples in Canada
The Canadian Press recently gained access to results of analysis of the use of homeless shelters across Canada by Indigenous peoples.
Housing First: Helping People Move from Homelessness to Long-Term Housing Stability
In this post, we share key insights from our recently published article on the long-term effects of Housing First (rent supplements and mental health support services) for people experiencing homelessness and mental illness.
Launching Canada’s Edition of Parity Magazine
There is a growing global movement to support young people better and fulfill their rights.
Home for Good: Collaborative Research for Systems Change
Women enter transitional and second stage housing from a number of places. However they got there, many get “stuck” in supportive housing programs because accessing independent housing is fraught with barriers. Home for Good sought to understand and address what was going on in women’s lives.
Post-Secondary Student Homelessness in Canada: New Research on Prevalence, Intervention and Prevention
Post-secondary student homelessness (PSSH) is a bigger problem in Canada than previously thought. PSSH includes a range of destabilizing housing experiences resulting in housing precarity or literal homelessness that is expressed within a far more complicated demography than found in K-12.
Expanding Options: Two Innovative Approaches to Housing Loss Prevention in Ottawa
As we draw closer to the 2019 CAEH Conference, Options Bytown
Interrupting Evictions: Comparing Provincial Landlord-Tenant Eviction Forms and Policies for Ground-Level and Government Interventions
In homelessness services we are often at the receiving end of individuals experiencing an eviction. Between March 2018 till March 2019 the Old Brewery Mission’s men services’ intake data from HIFIS indicated over 50% of individuals were evicted from their previous dwelling.
The Making the Shift Lab in Action: 6 Months In
It’s hard to believe that we only launched the