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Publication Date: 2019
Homelessness is a pervasive problem among youth aging out of the foster care system. Many of these youth exit the system without any concrete plans for their future and wind up suffering bouts of homelessness. Although a growing body of literature has begun to look at the factors that contribute to homelessness among this population, less has been written about the factors that guard against homelessness. Furthermore, most of the studies have bee...
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba
Publication Date: 2019
Social housing is home to many of our most vulnerable community members. Vulnerable populations are considered to be those who have multiple barriers to achieving or maintaining housing due to challenges such as poverty, health and mental health issues, trauma, newcomer settlement challenges, and disabil ity, amongst others. These tenants sometimes struggle to pay their rent, maintain their unit in safe and hygienic conditions, and take care of t...
Organization: C4 Innovations, Building Changes
Publication Date: 2019
Nationally, people of color are overrepresented in the homeless population (Jones, 2016; NAEH, 2018a; Carter, 2011). Stakeholders and policymakers are identifying
the system-level factors that may be contributing to, reinforcing, and perpetuating these racial inequities. Across the U.S., Continuums of Care (CoCs) are tasked with building and implementing systems to meet the needs of homeless individuals and families, but these community planning...
Publication Date: 2019
This report builds on the prevention agenda established through the Homelessness Reduction Act (2017) and seeks to help shape future thinking by the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce on a cross-government homelessness prevention agenda. As a result, the recommendations are primarily focused at the Westminster Government. The report is aimed at ministerial representatives and senior civil servants from across Whitehall as well as...
Publication Date: 2019
Youth often experience unique pathways into homelessness, such as family conflict, child abuse and neglect. Most research has focused on adult homeless populations, yet youth have specific needs that require adapted interventions. This review aims to synthesize evidence on interventions for youth and assess their impacts on health, social, and equity outcomes.
This review identified a variety of interventions for youth experiencing homelessness....
Publication Date: 2019
Final report prepared for the Aboriginal Standing Committee on Housing and Homelessness (ASCHH), Calgary, Alberta.
Across Canada, large and small urban centres are confronted with growing numbers of homeless individuals and a decreasing supply of affordable housing. Indigenous peoples in particular are disproportionately represented amongsturban homeless and in terms of the difficulty they experience trying to secure affordable and appropriate r...
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the ninth in a series. It draws on multiple research components from Voices of Youth Count (VoYC). Adolescence and young adulthood represent a critical developmental window. Every day that young people like Ray experience the stress of housing and educational instability represents a missed opportunity to support healthy development and promote successful transitions to adulthood. VoYC elevates the voices of young...
Publication Date: 2019
Quantification and standardization of concepts like risk and vulnerability are increasingly being used in high-stakes, client-facing social services, also presenting the potential for data-driven tools for decision-making in this context. These trends necessitate an understanding of the role of quantitative data in the work of street-level decision-makers in social services. We present a qualitative study of existing data practices and perception...
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the eighth in a series from Voices of Youth Count. Voices of Youth Count is a national research and policy initiative designed to fill critical gaps in the nation’s knowledge about unaccompanied homelessness among youth and young adults ages 13 to 25. We need evidence about what works and what doesn’t in programming and services to ensure our resources support the most effective solutions for ending youth homeless...
Organization: Pacific AIDS Network (PAN)
Publication Date: 2019
This toolkit was made as part of Positive Living, Positive Homes, a community-based research study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and co-led by the Pacific AIDS Network (PAN) and the University of Victoria.
Organization: City of Ottawa
Publication Date: 2019
This initiative is an important strategic exercise, which has generated results that will enhance our collective knowledge on demographics, needs and realities of people experiencing homeless in our community. It provides a unique opportunity to help inform future service and program planning as well as policy development and reformulation.
Over a 24-hour period on April 19 and 20, 2018, the City of Ottawa in collaboration with ffty-nine communit...
Publication Date: 2019
Homelessness is a devastating experience for children and their families. Families, the majority of whose members are children, now comprise more than one-third of the overall homeless population. Most of these children are less than six years old. Various assumptions have driven policy and the allocation of resources to programs serving these families. Although decades of research and field experience suggest strategies for preventing and reduci...
Publication Date: 2019
The management of homelessness has taken various forms over time. In 2003, the U.S. federal government significantly shifted its approach, ambitiously committing to end homelessness within 10 years by targeting the chronically homeless using the Housing First model. This approach to homelessness has rapidly spread across North America and beyond. This article is concerned with how the mobility of these 10-year plans has been realized. Drawing on ...
Organization: Statistics Canada
Publication Date: 2019
This study aims to profile workers in the homelessness support field. This group was defined by classifying workers based on specific occupations and industry of employment. Using data from the 2016 Census of Population, various socio-economic characteristics for these workers are presented. The study profiles these individuals by geography, age, sex, educational attainment, Aboriginal identity and visible minority status. The study also addresse...
Organization: Daily Bread Food Bank; North York Harvest Food Bank
Publication Date: 2019
Who’s Hungry captures and amplifies the voices of clients who have visited food banks. It tells the story of thousands of people living in a prosperous region, yet struggling to put food on the table.
This year, the report focuses on the right to food. We begin by describing the history of the right to food, followed by an analysis of trends in food bank use and poverty in the Toronto region based on data from food bank member agencies and our an...
Organization: Parity Magazine
Publisher: Council to Homeless Persons
Publication Date: 2019
It is with great pride that A Way Home Canada (AWHC), the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) and our Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab publish this edition of Parity with a special focus on Canadian efforts to transform how we respond to youth homelessness.
This edition is a showcase of a range of efforts across policy, systems planning and practice domains to support a move from predominantly a crisis response to...
Publication Date: 2019
It is important to continually assess how our community responds to our housing and homelessnes needs. The Community Housing & Homelessness Integrated Plan captures key learnings from the last 10 years of research and action, combined with over 2,700 community voices. An important step within the development of the Plan has been reflecting on where the community has been, what the current situation looks like, and projecting our future needs....
Publication Date: 2019
It is important to continually assess how our community responds to our housing and homelessnes needs. The Community Housing & Homelessness Integrated Plan captures key learnings from the last 10 years of research and action, combined with over 2,700 community voices. An important step within the development of the Plan has been reflecting on where the community has been, what the current situation looks like, and projecting our future needs....
Publication Date: 2019
This column describes the development of a partnership between health care, housing, and intellectual disability services to support efforts by homeless adults with intellectual disabilities to exit homelessness. Applying a Housing First approach and philosophy, the partners launched a pilot intervention, which at its first phase engaged 26 homeless adults with intellectual disabilities in Toronto. This cross-sector service model was acceptable t...
Publication Date: 2019
More than 2.8 million people live in the city of Toronto. This chapter covers a number of types of housing, ranging from ownership, market rate rental units, and social housing provided to those who cannot afford market rates to homeless shelters and supportive housing that allows seniors to remain independent as they age. Across all of these, finding affordable places to live is a growing challenge. The city is growing faster than ever before du...