What We heard...Talking to People about housing & homelessness in Hamilton

Our Community Engagement Strategy has been such an important part of the Action Plan process. This report shares findings from our different Community Engagement activities, including stories, quotes, themes and analysis from interviews, surveys, roundtable discussions and a community gathering. It contains suggestions that made it into the final strategies (sometimes with the exact wording) and other ideas that did not make it into the strategies. We have included the ideas that did not make it into the Plan because they deserve to be heard.

This report is intended to reflect the stories and ideas we heard from the people we consulted, which we hope will benefit the broader community, and other communities who are doing similar processes.This document is organized to report on the process and results of our Community Engagement Strategy activities.

This Action Plan is intended to be ‘person-centred’. By person-centred, we mean that people and their experiences should drive the way we respond to issues of homelessness and housing problems. 

Publication Date: 
2012
Location: 
Hamilton, ON, Canada