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Overview of Encampments Across Canada: A Right to Housing Approach
Author(s): Alexandra Flynn, Joe Hermer, Caroline Leblanc, Sue-Ann MacDonald, Kaitlin Schwan, Estair van Wagner
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
Homeless encampments constitute one of the most serious right-to-housing issues in Canada today. Mobilizing case studies, media scans, and literature and policy reviews, this report illuminates the inherent tensions of the human rights dimensions of encampments across Canada. Chapter 1 provides a background on the regulation of encampments before and after the pandemic. Chapter 2 focuses on the specific role of municipal bylaws in encampments. Su...
Case Study: Montréal, Sherbrooke, and Gatineau
Author(s): Caroline Leblanc, Sue-Ann MacDonald, Isabelle Raffestin, Émilie Roberge, Laury Bacro
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
Encampments with one or more makeshift shelters have always existed in Quebec. However, in the last two years, these have become more visible and therefore more worrisome. Faced with this increase in the number of people using public space as a place to live, this document presents the evolution of the situation of encampments between March 1, 2020, and the beginning of January 2022, based on a review of media in Quebec. More specifically, it add...
The paradox of being young and homeless: Resiliency in the face of constraints
Author(s): Sue-Ann MacDonald
Publication Date: 2013
Abstract: The major contribution of this article is to address the lack of knowledge regarding homeless youth’s experiences of risk, from their point of view. The youth at risk field has become a burgeoning area of research that tends to magnify vulnerabilities, yet limits our understanding of complex youth experiences. It is important to highlight another dimension of the homeless youth experience that has rarely been promoted, and that is one o...
Mental Health Courts: Processes, Outcomes and Impact on Homelessness
Author(s): Sue-Ann MacDonald, Céline Bellot, Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Audrey-Anne Dumais Michaud, Anik Pelletier
Publication Date: 2014
The Mental Health Commission of Canada released its first Canadian mental health strategy in 2012. In their report, Changing Directions, Changing Lives: The Mental Health Strategy for Canada, is the alarming finding that people with mental health problems are over-represented in the justice and corrections systems, and that this trend appears to be on the rise. One of the major recommendations is to increase the availability of programs to divert...
Managing Risk: Self-Regulation Among Homeless Youth
Author(s): Sue-Ann MacDonald
Publication Date: 2014
While homeless youth are characterized by their risky behaviours we know little about how they conceptualize and manage risk in their everyday lives. This article will flesh out one aspect of a doctoral study that explored homeless youth’s conceptualizations of risk, by unearthing their self-regulation practices. Deploying an ethnographic lens, 18 youth were followed over a 1–4 year period to capture their risk perception and practices as they un...
Taking It to the Street: a Psychiatric Outreach Service in Canada
Author(s): Susan J. Farrell, James Huff, Sue-Ann MacDonald, Alison Middlebro, Steven Walsh, Canada
Publication Date: 2005
This paper describes a model of flexible psychiatric outreach service in Canada designed to meet the needs of persons who are homeless or marginally housed and have mental illness. The activities of the Psychiatric Outreach Team of the Royal Ottawa Hospital for individual clients and the community agencies who serve them are profiled, followed by a demographic and mental and physical health profile of the clients seen in the past year. The differ...