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Prevention Matters!
Prevention Matters! A New Expert Panel Series Hosted by the COH
The homelessness sector already knows that the only way to truly solve the problem of homelessness is to shift towards preventing it before it happens. In fact, in our recent...
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Security of Tenure in Canada: A Series of Reports for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
In the words of former UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik, “Security of tenure is understood as a set of relationships with respect to housing and land, established through statutory or...
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Youth Homelessness Prevention Needs Assessment — Results Released
Prevention is the key to ending youth homelessness, but what do the people on the front lines think of it? And what do they know about the proven interventions designed...
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Prison: A Homelessness Factory
Cultivating Curiosity Talking about prison is taboo—Canadian society deals with it far less than is common in other jurisdictions (eg., the United States). Most people in Canada don’t know anything about...
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The Federal Housing Advocate Weighs in: Comments to the Review Panel on the Financialization of Rental Housing
In June of this year, the Federal Housing Advocate, Marie-Josée Houle, submitted her written representations to the first review panel to be held under the National Housing Strategy Act (NHSA)....
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Research
Defending 2SLGBTQ Rights: “Love Is Love” Is Not Enough
2SLGBTQ Rights—More Fragile than They Appear? 2SLGBTQ people in Canada have experienced some significant gains over the past couple of decades in relation to their rights. Marriage equality became federal...