Latest Contributions
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Journal
The Implementation of Coordinated Access to End Homelessness in Ontario, Canada
To receive federal homelessness funding, cities in Canada must adhere to federal policy directives associated with the government of Canada’s Reaching Home program. These directives include the implementation of a...
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The Politics of Prevention and Government Responses to Homelessness
Recently, the logic of public health prevention has found a foothold in research and advocacy about homelessness. From a commonsense perspective, the prevention of a social problem like homelessness is...
Latest Blog
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General
From Research to Action: Understanding Coordinated Access and Homelessness in Ontario
Recently, the International Journal of Homelessness Research published an article that I co-wrote with Mary-Anne Martin, the postdoctoral fellow at the Research for Social Change Lab (RSCL). The article is...
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Social Research & Development, Innovation and Our Response to Homelessness
The primary aim of this blog post is to articulate what I see as the possibilities and potential pitfalls associated with social research and development (R&D) and social innovation in...
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How Can We Use Administrative Data to Prevent Homelessness among Youth Leaving Care?
In 2017, I was part of a team of people at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and A Way Home Canada who wrote a policy brief titled, Child Welfare and...
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Education for Young People Experiencing Homelessness and Housing Precarity
Whether you’re in school now, or have been finished for a while, you can imagine what a typical day school day is like – rushing to class, shifting between engagement...
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Fighting Homelessness or Fighting the Homeless? A Duty to Assist Alternative
On November 7th, the Quebec Mayor Régis Labeaume announced that imprisonment for people experiencing homelessness would no longer be a consequence of unpaid tickets and that offences such as sleeping...
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Research
Update to the Canadian Definition of Homelessness
From my point of view, the Canadian Definition of Homelessness is one of the most important research-to-action initiatives that the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) has undertaken. In 2012, I...