London’s Housing First Homeless Prevention System Approach

Homelessness begins in a home, in a neighbourhood, in our communities. The lasting or permanent solution to preventing and ending homelessness is housing with support. It has been the historical and often current practice, that individuals and families experiencing homelessness were expected to address the issues that led to their homelessness, such as addiction, trauma and mental illness, before they were housed.

The priority of a Housing First approach is to move individuals and families experiencing homelessness quickly into housing with support and then begin to work on the issues that contributed to their homelessness from the stability and safety of their own home.

Publication Date: 
2016
Location: 
London, Ontario, Canada