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Author(s): Roch Hurtubise, Pierre-Olivier Babin, Carolyne Grimard
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2009
This review of literature on shelters for the homeless provides a brief history of shelters; a portrait of shelter users; an overview of intervention practices associated with the primary mission of shelters; and a survey of critical analysis of shelters, “shelterization,” and the role shelters play in addressing or masking homelessness in Canadian communities.
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Author(s): Roch Hurtubise, Pierre-Olivier Babin, Carolyne Grimard, CRI
Publication Date: 2006
In the spring of 2006, in the midst of a regional round table discussion on homelessness in different regions of Quebec, we noticed that many practitioners were worried about the role of shelters and of their importance in addressing the problem. What is the mission of these shelters? Are they the solution or are they merely a reproduction of conditions one would find in an asylum? Can we, from these shelters, foresee a way out from off the stree...