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Organization: Global Climate-Homelessness Initiative Group
Publication Date: 2022
This climate-homelessness response framework was developed as a guidance document that provides direction for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners based on the best available evidence and expert opinion. Specific approaches, in turn, can be informed by the general principles described here – designing for local engagement and implementation using social justice-based, culturally-situated practices. This guidance document highlights the is...
Organization: Global Climate-Homelessness Initiative Group
Publication Date: 2022
Climate-driven migration is increasing globally and is directly associated with homelessness and compromised housing. This challenge has the greatest impacts in low-income countries (e.g., rural-urban slum migration in Africa). While many migrate, the poorest are in many instances unable to migrate and forced to subsist in profoundly degraded environments.
Publication Date: 2022
The Housing First (HF) model places individuals experiencing chronic homelessness and disabilities in housing without the requirement of treatment. This study asesses the social networks of HF program participants to provide insights into the resources they derive from their personal networks, which may influence subjective wellbeing and have the potential of improving social integration.
Publication Date: 2022
Researcher and filmmaker Eric Weissman has studied homelessness, mental health and substance use. He is also a lived expert who has experienced episodic homelessness and witnessed the life-altering effects of safe, stable housing. In this interview on the Candian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), he shares his story with host Julia Wright and discusses housing as a form of harm reduction.
Publication Date: 2022
Many are reconsidering the VI-SPDAT after research showed it may not be reliable and may perpetuate racial inequities. However, until there’s more funding to end homelessness, communities must figure out how to prioritize and allocate limited resources, especially access to housing. This a journal article was written to help guide and inform these planning efforts.
Publication Date: 2022
Unity Health Toronto’s research community worked together to develop a three-level resource guide tailored to any researcher who intends to start learning or expanding their knowledge of equitable patient and community engagement in the design and implementation of research studies.
Publication Date: 2022
In this report, the research team presents a focused analysis on the overdose experiences among people experiencing homelessness from the larger 'Impacts of Overdose' study of people who inject drugs. There is an urgent need to understand the factors contributing to the increased risk of overdose among people experiencing homelessness to inform interventions and policy changes aimed at reducing the risk of overdose and drug-toxicity deaths in thi...
Publication Date: 2022
This study sought to evaluate a Housing First program for Veterans experiencing homelessness. This program aimed to enhance coordination/integration in the provision of housing and other support services for Veterans experiencing homelessness, to improve access to housing, and to support successful transitioning from homelessness into housing.
Publication Date: 2022
This commentary aims to bring attention to the prevailing issues and challenges faced by youth at-risk of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides crucial considerations for preventative solutions by incorporating the Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness Framework.
Publication Date: 2022
On the Way Home is a podcast that brings together the voices and issues involved in ending homelessness in Canada. In a recent episode, Marc Soberano, the Executive Director of Raising the Roof, talked about about “Reside”: a program that repurposes vacant homes to create long term affordable housing, and employment opportunities in the trades helping to prevent homelessness.
Publication Date: 2022
This paper represents the qualitative findings of a project that explored risk factors associated with family homelessness. It identified strategies that could mitigate and prevent homelessness among families using a focused ethnographic study guided by the principles of participatory action research (PAR).
Publication Date: 2022
Peel Talks Housing is a newly launched podcast created by the Region of Peel bringing meaningful, relatable, and thought-provoking conversations around housing issues to the public. The most recent episode explores the encampment situation in Peel and questions how the region should respond to it.
Publication Date: 2022
In this report, authors examine the barriers to self-care for people experiencing homelessness and how to overcome them.
Publication Date: 2019
Based on a rigorous background review of existing evidence and measures, and focus group discussions and consultations with a wide range of stakeholders, this report outlines a set of outcomes and measures associated with the core outcome areas for youth experiencing homelessness elevated by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) Framework to End Youth Homelessness. Through this initiative, communities now have access to a set of me...
Publication Date: 2022
Health care providers face many challenges in providing care to patients with diabetes who are experiencing homelessness. Considering the unique circumstance faced by this population, mainstream services must be adapted and tailored to meet patients’ needs. The objective of this study was to explore both the barriers faced by providers and programs in offering comprehensive diabetes care to these patients and their suggested areas for improvement...
Organization: Community Based Research Canada
Publication Date: 2022
Unlike most housing programs that focus on the physical structure as the solution to ending homelessness, Indigenous-led programs move away from the settler-colonial definition of homelessness. This CBRCanada webinar discussed the importance of focusing on Indigenous people’s spiritual reconnection to their Indigenous identity which involves a relationship to all living creatures, land, culture, languages, ceremony, family and all our relations a...
Publication Date: 2022
This episode discusses BC Housing’s collaboration with First Nations communities around British Columbia to improve the quality and boost the amount of culturally appropriate homes available. It also discusses how First Nations and the Federal and Provincial Governments can partner to provide improved housing.
Publisher: Association of Municipalities of Ontario
Publication Date: 2021
There is a rising homelessness crisis that exists amidst a housing affordability crisis. It is taking a devastating toll on individuals and communities.
Increasing housing affordability is the primary solution; however, there are a range of actions that can be taken by all orders of government to prevent and break the cycle of homelessness. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) is requesting that all levels of government come togeth...
Publication Date: 2022
It is likely that some of the changes made in the housing sector because of the COVID-19 pandemic will outlast the pandemic. This article explores what those changes are likely to be and how we should respond.
Publisher: Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Ontario 360
Publication Date: 2022
This policy brief identifies gaps in the Ontario government's homelessness strategy and puts forward a series of recommendations to fill it.