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The Privatization of Social Housing
Last weekend, Nick Falvo spoke on a panel at the Annual Conference of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. The panel was inspired in large part by the recent debate in Toronto over Mayor Rob...
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Poverty in Yukon
Last week I was in Whitehorse where I released a peer-reviewed policy report on poverty in Yukon. The report was part of the much larger Social Economy Research Network of...
Latest Blog
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Homelessness and Employment: The Case of Calgary
On March 8, I gave a guest presentation to students in Professor Naomi Lightman’s Sociology of Work class at the University of Calgary. I was joined by Alexander Kulakov and Amit...
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Five Things to Know About the 2018 Federal Budget
Last week’s federal budget, while not as transformative as last year’s, had important new initiatives related to housing and homelessness. Here are five things to know: New housing investments were...
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Ten things to know about Canada’s newly-unveiled National Housing Strategy
The opinions expressed are the author’s and not those of the COH. For details on the COH’s position on the NHS announcement, please see bit.ly/2AuhWL6.  On November 22, the Trudeau...
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Book Review: Indigenous Homelessness
Evelyn Peters and Julia Christensen recently wrote an edited book on homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Excluding the Introduction and Conclusion, more than half of the chapters are either authored...
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Second Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
On May 18, 2017, the Second Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative took place in Calgary (all slide presentations, as well as photos from the event, are available here). The event was organized...
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Monitoring Program Performance in Calgary’s Homeless-Serving System of Care
Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) recently unveiled new key performance indicators (KPIs) for programs they fund.[1] These new indicators were developed after nine months of community consultation and have been piloted over the course...