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Publication Date: 2023
Canada's housing and homelessness sector frequently marginalizes, undermines, and discriminates against those who do not adhere to strict binary notions of gender. Gender-diverse, Two-Spirit, and trans people face significant, intersecting human rights violations when it comes to housing and accessing emergency shelters, and are more likely to experience hidden homelessness.
These new reports comissioned by the Office of the Federal Housing Advo...
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Publication Date: 2022
Health navigators are healthcare professionals who specialize in care coordination, case management, navigating transitions, and reducing barriers to care. This study explores the impact of health navigators on community-based palliative care for people experiencing homelessness.
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Supports for Student Learning Program Research Series: Barriers Faced by Indigenous Students Summary
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Publication Date: 2023
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining the experiences of Black...
Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada
Publication Date: 2022
In 2021-22, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) within ESDC contracted seven research projects to better understand barriers and facilitators to educational attainment in Canada. Each project was led by an external researcher(s) and involved a literature review, a scan of provincial/territorial programs and services, and a discussion paper. This document provides an overview of the research project examining barriers and facilitators...
Publication Date: 2022
Thisi literature review explores the spread of COVID-19 in homeless shelters and hostels as well as the infection, prevention, and control practices in these settings. These findings reaffirm that homelessness prevention is key to limiting disease outbreaks and the associated negative health outcomes in shelter populations.
Publication Date: 2022
To understand the hospital discharge process for people experiencing homelessness, researchers in this study interviewed hospital staff, shelter staff, and key informants about their experiences when unhoused patients are discharged from hospitals to shelters.
The findings indicate that discharged patients are not adequately supported to transition into the community. Two systems failures are at the core of this issue:
Barriers to accessing publ...
Publication Date: 2022
Reflective approaches, which are known to better bridge the gap between research and practice, are slowly gaining ground among scholars and practitioners in the homelessness sector.
This paper discusses the importance of reflective practices in addressing homelessness and the implications they have for researchers and practitioners looking to adopt them.
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
Homeless encampments constitute one of the most serious right-to-housing issues in Canada today. Mobilizing case studies, media scans, and literature and policy reviews, this report illuminates the inherent tensions of the human rights dimensions of encampments across Canada. Chapter 1 provides a background on the regulation of encampments before and after the pandemic. Chapter 2 focuses on the specific role of municipal bylaws in encampments. Su...
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
While the crisis of people experiencing homelessness is by no means isolated to a single urban context, it is particularly acute and widespread in Vancouver. Vancouver has also been the site of several legal battles over the dismantling of encampments. This case study first describes the encampments at Vancouver’s Create a Real Available Beach (CRAB) Park. Next, it sets out legal challenges related to encampments, including two recent legal cases...
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
The City of Toronto has been in a housing and homelessness crisis for years, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of these intersecting crises, there was a significant increase in encampments across the City of Toronto in 2020. This case study explores the increase of encampments in Toronto between summer 2020 and summer 2021, the City’s responses to encampments, the role of civil society in addressing this crisis, an...
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
In May 2021, the City of Prince George in northern British Columbia adopted a punitive stance against the presence of mostly street involved and unsheltered Indigenous people. This involved plans to enact a “safe streets” bylaw and a council resolution to apply for an injunction to close two homeless encampments. What followed was a fierce legal battle over the human rights of mostly Indigenous homeless people to use public space as a site of she...
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
Encampments with one or more makeshift shelters have always existed in Quebec. However, in the last two years, these have become more visible and therefore more worrisome. Faced with this increase in the number of people using public space as a place to live, this document presents the evolution of the situation of encampments between March 1, 2020, and the beginning of January 2022, based on a review of media in Quebec. More specifically, it add...
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness and encampments have become more visible in Hamilton. The City’s attempts to dismantle encampments and enforce anti-camping bylaws have been subject to litigation by residents and advocates. This case study first describes some of the main encampments between March 2020 and May 2022. It then sets out the City’s bylaw framework and actions between March 2020 and May 2022 and finally examines the legal cha...
Publication Date: 2022
The Québec Homelessness Prevention Policy Collaborative (Q-HPPC) has concrete law reform recommendations for Quebec to better protect women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Based on consultations with the community, and over a year of research, the Q-HPPC’s Gender Research Stream released a policy paper with recommendations that focus on two areas: the right of victims of IPV and their families to live in safety, free from violence,...