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Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2019
It's that time of year again! The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) is teaming up with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) to organize the research and policy stream of presentations at the 2019 National Conference on Ending Homelessness.
COH’s research and policy stream provides an opportunity for academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to present their most promising, innovative and relevant research findin...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2019
It's that time of year again! The Canadian Observatory on Homeless (COH) is teaming up with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness to organize the research and policy stream of presentations at the 2019 National Conference on Ending Homelessness.
COH’s research and policy stream provides an opportunity for academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to present their most promising, innovative and relevant research findings. As this...
Organization: Pivot Legal Society
Publication Date: 2018
Stigma disqualifies people and groups from social acceptance and social equity. Stigma is powerful because it is not always easy to quantify. By shedding light on the experiences and voices of people who are told that they don’t matter because their lives and identities are stigmatized, Project Inclusion makes stigma visible. The project aims to address stigma’s root causes by offering analysis of how laws and policies in BC are both shaped by sti...
Publication Date: 2018
While much has been said about spiraling homeownership costs and the desperate state of low-income renters, few solutions, particularly for those of low and modest means, have been offered. Based on the best information currently available, the community housing sector has costed an Affordable Housing Plan for Ontario that lays out four recommendations:
Build 69,000 affordable rental homes over the next 10 years
Deliver income supports t...
Publication Date: 2019
The 2018 Affordable Housing Strategy (AHS) is a ten-year plan that continues and expands from the original Affordable Housing Business Plan. To fully address our municipality’s housing needs, this strategy document has been developed with the vision of working in-step with partners, stakeholders and residents to create and maintain safe, suitable, and affordable housing throughout the city.
For the purposes of this Affordable Housing Strategy, ‘A...
Publication Date: 2019
In North America, the key performance indicator of success in community strategies to address homelessness is whether a homeless person is housed or not. In this article, we argue that for young people experiencing homelessness, we need to advance a broader consideration of outcomes to include a range of well-being indicators designed to understand the needs of developing adolescents and young adults and contribute to housing stability. We articu...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Publication Date: 2018
This resource focuses on collecting gender identity and sexual orientation data through Point-in-Time Counts, and is meant to support communities conduct counts that are LGBTQ2S inclusive, competent, and affirming. For more information about conducting a Point-in-Time Count, refer to the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness’ Point-in-Time Count Toolkit.
A French language report with be posted shortly.
Publisher: Vibrant Communities Calgary and Action to End Poverty in Alberta
Publication Date: 2013
The Government of Alberta has committed to developing a poverty reduction strategy that will end child poverty within 5 years and reduce overall poverty within 10 years. Poverty Costs 2.0: Investing in Albertans is a follow-up report to the work presented in Poverty Costs: An Economic Case for a Preventative Poverty Reduction Strategy in Alberta (2012).
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba
Publication Date: 2006
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives State of the Inner City Report: 2006 includes a detailed study of community-police relations in Inner City Winnipeg entitled Bridging the Community-Police Divide. The report is based on interviews with 45 residents and businesspeople and 17 community workers in three inner-city neighbourhoods: Centennial, Spence, and William Whyte. Interviews were also conducted with seven members of the Winnipeg Police...
Publisher: Social Planning and Research Council of Ontario
Publication Date: 2017
Twenty nine Hamiltonians living in poverty agreed to talk in April 2016 about what they experience on a daily basis. Their stories were heard by senior faith, education and health leaders. And they were recorded for use in the report you are reading. The interviews were organized by Hamilton Faith Communities in Action, a group formed in 2013 through Hamilton Organizing for Poverty Elimination (HOPE) to bring faith groups together to advance soci...
Publisher: BMC Health Services Research
Publication Date: 2010
This report shows that people living in poverty have the greatest needs and face considerable challenges in getting the care they need. Evidence reveals that GPs encounter difficulties in delivering care to poor patients, while many of those patients feel stigmatized by healthcare professionals. Patients living in poverty report negative healthcare experiences and unmet healthcare needs. Indeed, there is a growing recognition in primary care rese...
Organization: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
Publisher: AOSIS
Publication Date: 2014
Poverty is a human condition. Social, economic, psychological and political factors affect society and can alleviate as well as stimulate poverty. Religion provides a unique perspective on the phenomenon of poverty. This article suggests three functions of religion regarding poverty. Firstly, religion can redirect human thought to spiritual concerns, focusing on spiritual poverty instead of material concerns. Secondly, it can provide the moral fi...
Publisher: Mount Saint Vincent University
Publication Date: 2009
This paper argues for re-envisioning a critical integrative approach to poverty in lone mother families. In order to substantiate our argument, we unpack the concept feminization of poverty by fleshing out its racial undertones. We also show how a gendered and racialized understanding of poverty in lone mother families is neutralized and/or erased in political and policy discourses and media.
Publisher: Broadbent Institute
Publication Date: 2016
The issues of adequate retirement income security and seniors’ poverty figured prominently in the 2015 Canadian federal election—as well they should have. Ensuring the economic well-being of Canada’s growing population of seniors is an important and complex public policy challenge that the new federal government must grapple with.
Read our report authored by statistician Richard Shillington, who, for the first time in Canada, analyzed the retirem...
Publisher: The Canadian Coalition Against LGBTQ+ Poverty
A joint submission to the consultation on Canada's first national poverty reduction strategy.
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2016
This report calculates child poverty rates in Canada, and includes the rates on reserves and in territories—something never before examined. The report also disaggregates the statistics and identifies three tiers of poverty for children in Canada, finding the worst poverty experienced by status First Nation children (51%, rising to 60% for children on reserve). The second tier encompasses other Indigenous children and disadvantaged groups (rangin...
Publication Date: 2009
Many immigrants face barriers when settling in Canada - language difficulties, lack of Canadian work experience, lack of recognition of foreign credentials, insufficient or inappropriate affordable housing and difficulty finding suitable jobs that match their qualifications. According to the Calgary Foundation almost 50% of immigrants with post-secondary credentials are not utilizing their skills and experience in their jobs in Alberta. This is r...
Organization: Cape Breton Community Housing Association
Publication Date: 2019
Everyone Counts 2018, the second HPS Coordinated Point-in-Time Count, was held on March and April 2018 to continue to help communities measure their progress in reducing homelessness. The second count strengthens the focus on engaging homeless youth and Indigenous populations.
Publication Date: 2018
Citizen attitudes toward welfare state investments are often explained by their ideological values and their perceptions of deservingness of welfare recipients, yet recent experimental research has led to the theorization that clear deservingness cues can overwhelm otherwise strong ideological beliefs. We tested these claims with respect to homelessness in Canada using a vignette survey experiment and found evidence that citizens with very differ...