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Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2019
Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) is a rights-based intervention for young people (aged 13-24) who experience homelessness, or who are at risk. It is designed to address the needs of developing adolescents and young adults by providing them with immediate access to housing that is safe, affordable and appropriate, and the necessary and age appropriate supports that focus on health, well-being, life skills, engagement in education and employment, and...
Publication Date: 2019
Indigenous people in Canada are not only over-represented among the homeless population but their pathways to homelessness may differ from those of non-Indigenous people. This study investigated the history and current status of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people experiencing homelessness and mental illness. We hypothesised that compared with non-Indigenous people, those who are Indigenous would demonstrate histories of displacement earlier in...
Publication Date: 2018
The Peel Housing and Homelessness Plan sets the renewed direction for the work of the Region of Peel and its partners over the next 10 years to make affordable housing available and to prevent homelessness for all Peel residents.
Organization: United Way of KFL&A (Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington)
Publication Date: 2019
Five years ago, Kingston and area had a higher than average youth homeless percentage (one in three, where the national average was one in five). The United Way was selected to coordinate a pilot to mobilize capacity to address youth homelessness in a mid-sized community. Embarking on this journey, we realized that our community needed a targeted, collaborative approach – one that focused on prevention and really identifying the root cause of the...
Publication Date: 2018
The public workforce system and homeless service system both encounter and serve jobseekers experiencing homelessness or housing instability. A wealth of evidence links employment success and housing stability. The public workforce system’s goal is to help people succeed in employment, while the homeless service system’s goal is to get people stably housed. To achieve these interconnected goals, the public workforce system has a clear stake in it...
Organization: University of British Columbia
Publication Date: 2019
Research 101 was a series of six weekly workshops (held from February to April 2018) to discuss research and ethics in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). These workshops emerged out of a wider conversation on ethics in cultural production (e.g. research, media, artmaking) within the DTES convened by Hives for Humanity and supported by Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Research 101 was but one of several components of th...
Publication Date: 2019
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore homeless young adults’ perceptions of the systemic, situational, and intrapersonal barriers they encounter across multiple systems in trying to exit homelessness and the ways these barriers are interrelated. Thirty-one homeless young adults (ages 18–26) in Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona were recruited for in-depth interviews from two resource centers serving homeless youth. Template analysis was us...
Organization: University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design
Publication Date: 2019
This paper explores recent work undertaken by BC Non-Profit Housing Association (BCNPHA) and the BC Rental Housing Coalition to quantify the need and demand for affordable housing in communities throughout BC. Through the Canadian Rental Housing Index and the development of the Affordable Housing Plan for BC, which influenced the government of B.C.’s affordablehousing plan, BCNPHA has been developing partnerships to address the affordability cris...
Organization: RentSmart
Publication Date: 2019
Prevention of homelessness is a huge task and can feel daunting. However, more and more organizations and communities are shifting from crisis to prevention. This Prevention Assessment Tool is designed for organizations and communities to assess current prevention strategies and identify areas for improvement and/or attention.
How you can use this tool:
Go through the tools with your team and actions and discuss if the action is applicable to y...
Organization: RentSmart
Publication Date: 2019
Prevention is shifting from focusing primarily on crisis responses to housing and homelessness and asking 'what can we do to stop people from becoming homeless in the first place? It means understanding the big picture and the inflows into homelessness. It means working upstream to stop homelessness from occurring, providing early intervention support and quickly re-housing if housing instability looks inevitable. Prevention requires a big system...
Organization: Colour of Poverty
Publication Date: 2019
Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change (COP-COC) is a campaign made up of individuals and organizations working to build community-based capacity to address the growing racialization of poverty and the resulting increased levels of social exclusion and marginalization of racialized communities (both Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour) across Ontario. COP-COC works to build concrete strategies, develop tools, and build community-based capacity...
Organization: Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Publication Date: 2019
Violence against Indigenous women, girls, trans and two-spirit people is one of the most pressing human rights issue in Canada today. We know that the over-representation in statistics on homicides, poverty, homelessness, child apprehensions, police street checks, incarceration, and overdose fatalities is not a coincidence; it is part of an infrastructure of gendered colonial violence. Colonial state practices target women for removal from Indige...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness
Publication Date: 2016
Mass homelessness in Canada emerged in the 1980s, following a massive disinvestment in affordable housing, structural shifts in the economy and reduced spending on social supports. Since then, stakeholders across the country have tried and tested solutions to address the issue. These responses, largely based on the provision of emergency services, have prevented meaningful progress. Fortunately, there are many signs that we are entering a new pha...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; A Way Home Canada
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2018
It is time for a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to youth homelessness. The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness is designed to help service providers, policy makers, communities, advocates, researchers, and all people in Canada better understand the meaning of youth homelessness prevention. It provides a clear definition of youth homelessness prevention, a prevention typology, and a common language for policy and practice,...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2017
Prevention makes sense. To prevent disease, we vaccinate. To prevent traffic deaths, we install seat belts. While we recognize intuitively that preventing homelessness is a good idea, there has been little movement in Canada to make that happen on a national scale. A New Direction: A Framework for Homelessness Prevention sets out to provide the language and clarity to begin that conversation.
Since mass homelessness emerged in the mid-1980s, we...
Publication Date: 2018
This article presents the findings of a fidelity assessment conductedwith a Housing First programme in Canada that supported clients with problematic substance use. A mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) evaluation design was used. A fidelity assessment survey, fidelity rating conciliation session, and interviews were conducted with programme staff and management to identify facilitators and barriers to the programme’s fidelity to the Hou...
Publication Date: 2019
Effective 2018, the Region of Peel is participating in a coordinated effort, funded by the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy and the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Housing, to measure homelessness locally once every two years. The Region of Peel, in collaboration with the Peel Alliance to End Homelessness (PAEH) and other community partners, conducted a joint Point-in-Time (PiT) Count and Registry Week in April 2018. The...
Publisher: Institute for Public Research on Policy
Publication Date: 2015
Amid growing concerns over the potential impact of population aging, ongoing globalization and rising income inequality, Canadian thinkers and policy leaders are once again actively debating the future of social policy. In the latest IRPP Policy Horizons Essay, social policy expert Peter Hicks argues that the conventional wisdom on how these forces will play out over the coming decade, and the solutions they require, is to a large extent misguide...
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2016
This paper, which expands upon a chapter on poverty and inequality in the upcoming 2016 Alternative Federal Budget, proposes the terms of a comprehensive federal poverty reduction plan. If the government is serious about its campaign pledge to bring real economic opportunities to more people, the practical and affordable policy tools outlined here will take them some way toward that goal.
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2016
This paper, which expands upon a chapter on poverty and inequality in the upcoming 2016 Alternative Federal Budget, proposes the terms of a comprehensive federal poverty reduction plan. If the government is serious about its campaign pledge to bring real economic opportunities to more people, the practical and affordable policy tools outlined here will take them some way toward that goal.