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Publication Date: 2020
Addressing the vulnerability and unique needs of homeless populations during pandemics has been a major component of the Canadian federal response to the COVID-19 crisis. Rural and remote communities, however, have received little to no funding to aid in their care of homeless people during the pandemic. Similarly, there has been little to no research on rural communities’ pandemic preparedness in the context of homelessness. There are large numb...
Publication Date: 2018
Executive Summary
The objective of the enumeration project was to obtain information about the number, socio-demographic/linguistic characteristics, histories of homelessness and prior experiences of homeless persons. The enumeration study was conducted in a manner consistent with the requirement of the Province of Ontario to conduct project to count the number of people living with homelessness within every district in the province. It is linked...
Organization: Laurentian University, University of Sudbury
Publication Date: 2017
Abstract: This special issue describes a multi-year community-university research alliance that explores issues related to poverty, homelessness, housing and migration in a vast region within northern Ontario, Canada. This introductory article explains the approach to the methodology used in the project and provides and an integrative perspective to the studies undertaken. The six articles presented in this special issue are placed in a broader c...
Organization: Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2017
Abstract: This study fills a gap in the literature by expanding knowledge about migratory/transient homelessness in a northern Ontario context. Con-ducted in Sudbury (Ontario) Canada, this multi-methods study included an analysis of existing quan-titative and qualitative data (from 2000-2007), a sur-vey of homeless persons (2009) and focus groups with service users and providers (2009). Key findings indicate that migrants constitute about a fift...
Organization: Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2017
Abstract: This article describes a study on home-lessness within a First Nation community (NEO FN), including the characteristics and reasons for home-lessness, the size of the at risk population, service utilization, the impact of homelessness and models of collaboration between agencies. An objective was to gather information for the development of a com-munity-based strategy for addressing homelessness, including the need and possibility of es...
Publication Date: 2016
Social profiling expands the scope of policing activities through the construction and application of broad profiles. Such actions have an impact on homeless people regardless of gender, cultural group, or ethnic background. Use of the term “ethnic profiling” enables the understanding of social sorting based on cultural and linguistic characteristics rather than on perceived physical differences. Social profiling in relationship to homelessness h...
Organization: Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy, Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2015
The purpose of this study was to gather up-to-date information about various subgroups within the homeless population in Sudbury. The City of Greater Sudbury (CGS) required a point-in-time count (PIT) of homeless persons — including a count of chronically and episodically homeless people — in order to obtain information about their socio-demographic/linguistic characteristics as well as to identify the number of veterans/people with military serv...
Publication Date: 2015
This study fills a gap in the literature by expanding knowledge about migratory/transient homelessness in a northern Ontario context. Conducted in Sudbury (Ontario) Canada, this multi-methods study included an analysis of existing quantitative and qualitative data (from 2000-2007), a survey of homeless persons (2009) and focus groups with service users and providers (2009). Key findings indicate that migrants constitute about a fifth to a quarter...
Publication Date: 2015
This article describes the number of people who are homeless and absolutely homeless in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The total homeless population (high-risk and absolutely homeless) identified in the study (n=513) included 150 infants, children and adolescents under age 15. The majority of homeless people were adults in their 20s, 30s, or 40s. Indigenous people were greatly over-represented among the homeless population as 26% of homeless people...
Publication Date: 2015
Homelessness has been described as a crisis within Canada; yet little published research has described the extent and nature of homelessness within communities in northeastern Ontario, Canada. A period prevalence count was conducted of the homeless population using emergency shelters, social service agencies, and other services in the City of Timmins, in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The total homeless population (high-risk and absolutely homeles...
Organization: Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2012
This report provides a detailed portrait of the homeless population in Timmins by providing information on the following points:
the numbers of people who, during the week of 24 to 30 January 2011, were at risk of becoming homeless or were absolutely homeless in Timmins;
the background characteristics including children, youth, women, men, subgroups in the homeless population (i. e. those of Anglo/European origins, Aboriginal people, and Francoph...
Publication Date: 2013
Research utilizing the individual case study method examined the complex issues related to pathways into and out of homelessness for an Aboriginal man from a First Nation community on the western James Bay in Canada. This instrumental case study focused on an individual’s story, rather than on a site or a group of individuals, an incident or a series of incidents, or a program [6] [15]. First, as a research tool, it provides insight into the issu...
Organization: Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2013
This report describes the following:
the number of people who are near homeless in North Bay and absolutely homeless;
breakdowns on background characteristics including children, youth, women, men, and subgroups in the population (i.e. those of Anglo/European origins, Aboriginal people, and Francophones);
sources of income;
reasons for homelessness; and
trends in referral of homeless people.
Organization: Social Planning Council of Sudbury
Publication Date: 2002
The fourth study of homelessness in Sudbury has confirmed a number of trends in the characteristics of people who are absolutely homeless:
- Females represent over a third of the homeless population.
- Aboriginal people are greatly over-represented among those who are absolutely without housing and those who are experiencing relative homelessness.
- Nearly a third of homeless people were reported to be absolutely without housing.
- Adults aged 20...
Organization: Social Planning Council of Sudbury
Publication Date: 2002
The growing problem of homelessness in Canada’s major cities has been underscored recently through the attention garnered by the closing of “squats” in Vancouver and Toronto and the eviction of homeless people. These events were reported in the national media (cf. Maclean’s, 2002). In smaller urban centres, like Sudbury however, homeless people exist in significant numbers but they are largely invisible on the national scene. Our research on home...
Organization: Social Planning Council of Sudbury
Publication Date: 2001
The third study of homelessness in Sudbury has confirmed many of the earlier findings about the extent and nature of homelessness in this community:
• a substantial proportion of those who are homeless were women (approximately 40%);
• the homeless population included people in the full range of age groups from infancy to old age;
• while the majority of homeless people were single/unattached people, about a fifth were married or in common-law re...
Organization: Social Planning Council of Sudbury
Publication Date: 2001
This study has confirmed many of the same trends revealed in our first report based on the July, 2000 data collection. The magnitude of the problem was verified, with 341 homeless individuals identified in January compared with 407 individuals identified in July. Furthermore, in January, 2001, 100 of these individuals (29%) were absolutely homeless, using the restrictive definition of homelessness that has been rejected by many as underestimating...
Organization: Greater Sudbury
Publication Date: 2000
This study has demonstrated that the growing homelessness crisis, documented in Canada’s major urban centres, is also a serious problem in Sudbury. This study identified over 400 different homeless men, women, and children using shelters and other services in a one-week period in July, 2000. In addition to the findings of the agency count, a survey conducted in a random sample of neighbourhoods in the city found homeless persons staying temporari...
Publication Date: 2003
The primary goal of this study is to conduct 'action-oriented' and ‘solution focused’ research that will identify the key structural/systemic issues that lead to homelessness among particular subgroups in the homeless population (i.e. Aboriginal people, Francophones, Anglophones, men and women, people with mental illness, youth, transients, and families). The objective was to enable the development and description of viable strategies for reducin...