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The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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Author(s): Sean A. Kidd, Stephen Gaetz, Bill O’Grady
Publication Date: 2017
This study was designed to provide a representative description of the mental health of youth accessing homelessness services in Canada.
It is the most extensive survey in this area to date and is intended to inform the development of mental health and addiction service and policy for this marginalized population.
Author(s): Tyler Pettes, Naomi Dachner, Stephen Gaetz, Valerie Tarasuk
Publication Date: 2016
While there has recently been considerable research and public investment in strategies to address homelessness in Canada, food charity remains the primary response to hunger, with little evaluation of current efforts and no initiatives to develop more effective approaches. Using data from a 2010–2011 survey of charitable food assistance in five Canadian cities, this study was undertaken to describe charitable meal provisioning in each city and t...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2014
The Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN) was established to create a stronger link between homelessness research, policy, and practice. The knowledge mobilization strategy of the CHRN encompasses engaged scholarship, networking, and innovative dissemination practices. Part of the learning of the CHRN has been the need to reimagine and redefine the traditional relationship between content creation and dissemination. Using a “design thinki...
Author(s): Bill O’Grady, Stephen Gaetz, Kristy Buccieri
Publication Date: 2013
Anti-social behaviour statutes are proliferating in western societies, yet little statistical analysis has been conducted on their enforcement patterns and trends, particularly in Canada. A study of the Ontario Safe Streets Act enforcement in Toronto shows a 2,000 percent increase in tickets from 2000 to 2010, with most being issued downtown to homeless individuals. Further research shows that this increase is not the result of increasing crime r...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2013
In “Varieties of Punitiveness in Europe”, O’Sullivan sets out to review on-going debates on the use of criminal justice systems as a strategy to manage homelessness. That is, he explores the question of how do we understand exclusionary measures such as the enactment of laws targeting people who are homeless, as well as specific policing practices intended to restrict the use of public spaces, in terms of the neoliberal turn of the past quarter c...
Author(s): Hiebert, Sarah Wayland, Bruce Newbold, Stephen Gaetz, Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, David Hulchanski, Valerie Preston, Ann Marie Murnaghan, Robert Murdie, Jennifer Logan, Jane Wedlock, Uzo Anucha, et al.
Publication Date: 2010
The successful integration of immigrants and refugees into a new society is based on their attainment of several basic needs, one of the most important of which is affordable, suitable and adequate housing. In recent years, there has been increasing attention paid to the role of housing in the integration process. This has prompted examinations of the links between access to affordable housing and the residential concentrations of newcomers and m...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Valerie S. Tarasuk, Naomi Dachner, Sharon Kirkpatrick
Publication Date: 2006
Although the magnitude of homelessness in Canada remains poorly documented, there is broad consensus that the problem has grown in size and complexity in recent years. According to the Toronto Report Card on Housing and Homelessness 2003 (City of Toronto, 2003), about 32, 000 individuals - an increase of 21% since 1990 - stayed in emergency shelters across the city in 2002. When all those who sleep in indoor or outdoor public places or stay tempo...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2006
This edition of the Canadian Review of Social Policy brings together a sampling of papers presented at the Canadian Conference on Homelessness, held at York University in 2005. Over 700 people gathered at this first large-scale conference on homelessness in Canada, with delegates and presenters coming from all regions of Canada, as well as from abroad. The diversity of content was far reaching, demonstrating the breadth of knowledge and expertise...
Author(s): Bill O'Grady, Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2002
Three hundred and sixty homeless youth in Toronto, Canada were asked to report how they made money in order to survive. Income generation among this marginal population was conceptualized by fusing theory and research in the fields of the informal economy and the "underclass" and sociological criminology. While economic activity was found to be flexible, our analysis also reveals that work on the street is stratified on the basis of worker backgr...
Author(s): Kristy Buccieri, Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2013
The manner in which limited vaccines are distributed during a pandemic is an ethical issue. The utility principle has been used to argue priority be given to certain individuals based on factors such as the epidemiology of the spread of disease and maintaining the functioning of society. The equity principle has been used to encourage fair practices that account for the economic and social costs of all decisions made. We argue that both principle...
Author(s): Jack Lee, Stephen Gaetz, Fred Goettler
Publication Date: 1994
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 1992
A weakness in the approach to community-based youth services in Cork (Ireland) involves viewing the terms "youth" and "community" as though they represented homogeneous categories. Ethnographic data highlight the difficulties of monolithic classification by describing the experiences of three distinct categories of young people. (SLD)
Author(s): Naomi Dachner, Stephen Gaetz, Blake Poland, Valerie Tarasuk
Publication Date: 2009
Over the past two decades, Canada has witnessed a proliferation of community-based initiatives providing charitable meals to homeless and under-housed individuals. The existing research has raised concerns about the ability of such initiatives to meet users' nutrient needs. As part of a study of Toronto meal programs, open-ended interviews with program coordinators and observations of 16 meal programs were conducted to provide insight into the nu...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2008
As the homelessness crisis in Canada has worsened over the past 15 years, it has become increasingly apparent that we need to re-evaluate our approach to this critical issue. There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a crisis. The numbers of people who can be found panhandling on streets or sleeping in parks in major cities throughout the country is testament to this. At the same time, homelessness has become much more visible in suburban are...
Author(s): D. M. Kulik, Stephen Gaetz, Cathy Crowe, E. L. Ford-Jones
Publication Date: 2011
Homelessness has reached epidemic proportions in Canada. Canadian children and adolescents are the most vulnerable because youth comprise the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. A systematic literature review was undertaken using MEDLINE, Web of Science and the Homeless Hub (www.homelesshub.ca) to encompass the time frame from January 1990 to June 2009. The following terms were used as key words: 'homelessness', 'homeless youth',...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2010
FREE Access to Full Text: This editorial discusses approaches to ending homelessness in Canada. Featured in the "Future of Homeless Services" Special Issue, the guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center, was published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal. Stephen Gaetz explores the sources and solutions to homelessness in Canada.
The current Canadian response to homelessness focuses on prevention, rapid transition out of homeless...
Author(s): Valerie S. Tarasuk, Naomi Dachner, Blake Poland, Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2009
Objective: To describe homeless youths’ experiences of food insecurity and examine the relation between chronic food deprivation and food acquisition practices.
Design: A cross-sectional survey of homeless youths was conducted in 2003 to assess their nutritional vulnerability and describe their food acquisition practices.
Setting: Toronto, Canada.
Subjects: Two hundred and sixty-one youths, aged 16–24 years, who had spent ten or more of the pa...
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Jack Lee
Publication Date: 1995
The article focuses on oral health of the marginalized populations and advocates developing better dental services for them.
Author(s): Bill O'Grady, Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2004
Research on employment segregation & women's lower earnings has predominantly focused on labour-market participants. Marginal groups such as the homeless have therefore been excluded from theory & research on work-related gender segregation. In order to fill this void, this paper explores how income creation among homeless youth from Toronto, Canada varies according to gender. Based on questionnaire and interview data our results...