Research Matters Blog
Implementing Duty to Assist in Canada: A Rights-Based Approach to Preventing and Ending Homelessness
The Duty to Assist is perhaps one of the most significant paradigm-shifting developments in our efforts to prevent and end homelessness since Housing First arrived on the scene more than 25 years ago...
Stephen GaetzMarch 01, 2023
For the past year we have been working on Duty to Assist, exploring the Welsh model and co-designing a prototype in Hamilton, ON, to explore how it could be adapted to the Canadian context. But what...
Julia Verena LalandeMarch 18, 2020
The desire to address inequalities and exclusionary practices within homelessness policy led Wales to become the first country to attempt to fully reorient homelessness services toward prevention and...
The desire to address inequalities and exclusionary practices within homelessness policy led Wales to become the first country to attempt to fully reorient homelessness services toward prevention and...
Melanie RedmanJune 12, 2019