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Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Ren Thomas, Amy Salmon
Organization: BC Non-Profit Housing Association
Publication Date: 2012
M’akola Group of Societies aims “To provide homes primarily for Aboriginal people, where they can have pride and feel connected to traditional values and a community.”1 In 2007, M’akola identified the need to collect information on the impacts of their housing and inform future changes to their programming. The current three-year strategic plan for M’akola Group of Societies outlines, as one of their five key objectives, the need to develop and a...
Author(s): Deborah Kraus, Jim Woodward, Margaret Eberle
Organization: BC Non-Profit Housing Association
Publication Date: 2005
This report describes eight partnership initiatives that involve housing providers and service agencies working together to address homelessness. The housing providers are making units available to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who face barriers accessing affordable housing. Community agencies are providing support to help tenants/residents maintain their housing. Local, provincial and federal governments also play a role...
Author(s): Sylvia Novac, Luba Serge, Margaret Eberle, Joyce Brown, Status of Women Canada
Organization: HRSDC-HPS
Publication Date: 2002
This report explores the causes, demographics and patterns of homelessness among young women (aged 12 to 24) in Canada. It includes case study reports for eight cities based on interviews with more than 100 informants and previously unpublished data. Gender-and age-specific issues (ie, sexual violence, pregnancy, service gaps for mid-teens, minors and the child welfare system) are discussed. A critical review of programs and policies shows how th...
Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Deborah Kraus
Publication Date: 2006
The purpose of the Shelter Strategy is to plan for the shelter system in Greater Vancouver over a 10 year horizon, recognizing the links between shelters and permanent housing. The Strategy focuses on all types of emergency shelters, inclduing year round adult and seasonal shelters, transition houses, youth shelters and safe houses. It includes recommendations on: - the number of year round and seasonal shelter spaces that are needed - where the...
Author(s): George Fisher, Michel Mercadié, Ali Hanrat, Margaret Eberle, Luba Serge, John Evans, Jim Gurnett, Bill Edgar, Yoshihiro Okamoto, Dearbhal Murphy, Toby Blume, Michael Kane, Freek Spinnewijn, John Parvensky, Jessica B. Simpson, Paul Tepper
Publication Date: 2004
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Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Scott Graham, Michael Goldberg, Joanne Cheung, Byron Barrett
Organization: SPARC BC
Publication Date: 2010
The Metro Vancouver Homeless Count (MVHC) has been a triennial community-based research project that was conducted in 2002, 2005, and 2008. The three MVHC were united by the same twenty four hour point-intime methodology and a common purpose to:
• enumerate homeless persons by municipality in Metro Vancouver;
• create demographic profiles of those enumerated on the day of the count; and,
• identify trends related to each homeless count (especiall...
Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Deborah Kraus, Steve Pomeroy, David Hulchanski
Publication Date: 2001
The specific objectives for this exploratory research are: - To present a cost analysis of homelessness in terms of the British Columbia health care, social services and criminal justice systems. - To analyse whether the provision of adequate and affordable housing is a preventive cost to the government.
Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Deborah Kraus, Luba Serge
Publication Date: 2009
The present study replicated the L.A. approach using a made in Canada definition to estimate the size of the hidden homeless population in Metro Vancouver. The L.A. study definition was deemed too restrictive for Canadian purposes; it was felt that the focus on outdoor structures not meant for human habitation would not reflect the reality of Canadian winters and would not capture the phenomenon of temporary shared accommodation. The objectives o...
Results of the pilot study to estimate the size of the hidden homeless population in Metro Vancouver
Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Deborah Kraus, Luba Serge
Publication Date: 2009
The size of the hidden homeless population in Canadian communities is unknown and of concern to those involved in homelessness planning and prevention. The present study aimed to address this gap using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative component tested an approach to estimate the size of the hidden homeless population in Metro Vancouver (at a point in time and on a yearly basis) using a made in Canada definition. It mod...
Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Deborah Kraus, Stephen Pomeroy, David Hulchanski
Organization: Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Social Development and Economic Security; BC Housing Management Commission
Publication Date: 2001
A snapshot of homelessness in British Columbia (BC) was undertaken in 1996 and 1997 by a research team which spoke with emergency shelters for the homeless in seven communities across BC. The seven communities include: Victoria, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Nelson, Prince George and Terrace. Although the document does not discuss homelessness in the context of rural or northern situations, several of these communities may be considered to be locat...
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski, Margaret Eberle, Kris Olds, Dana Stewart
Publication Date: 1991
This study seeks to build upon and extend our knowledge about innovative ways of assisting the homeless by identifying important locally derived solutions that may be replaceable on a broader scale and to document those features that pose problems for the sponsor or the tenants. It presents profiles of six projects developed and managed by three community-based organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia. The report is intended to serve two...
Author(s): Margaret Eberle, Tom Zizys
Publication Date: 2003
This research is a retrospective longitudinal study of service use and employment and housing patterns for a group of individuals who have experienced episodic homelessness in order to compare the costs of homelessness with the costs and benefits of appropriate services. The study will track the service use, housing and employment patterns and estimate the related costs for 100 formerly episodically homeless individuals in Toronto comprised of yo...
Author(s): Luba Serge, Margaret Eberle, Michael Goldberg, Susan Sullivan, Peter Dudding
Organization: HRSDC-HPS
Publication Date: 2002
This pilot study aimed to contribute to a more thorough understanding of the relationship between youth who have been in the care of child welfare and youth homelessness in a Canadian context. This research project had two broad objectives: To identify the factors that lead to homelessness for some, while others, who may be in an equally vulnerable situation (i.e. in care) do not become homeless; and To assess the need for a broader study using t...