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Climate Change, Weather, Housing Precarity, and Homelessness: A Systematic Review of Reviews
This systematic review of reviews was conducted to examine housing precarity and homelessness in relation to climate change and weather extremes internationally. In a thematic analysis of 15 reviews (5...
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Upstream Canada: An Early Intervention Strategy to Prevent Youth Homelessness & School Disengagement
Upstream Canada is a response to this challenge and the staggering reality that 35,000 – 45,000 youth in Canada experience homelessness each year (Gaetz, 2016). This initiative is a preventive...
Latest Blog
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Solving youth homelessness in Canada
Calgary launches its Plan to End Youth Homelessness I think it’s time to change the way we respond to youth homelessness in Canada. I began working with homeless youth in...
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Feed the homeless at own risk…
In Florida, people are being arrested for giving food to people who are homeless. That’s right, for providing food to malnourished people. The City of Orlando has been targeting Food...
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Can housing first work if there isn’t enough affordable housing?
In recent years, “housing first” has emerged as a key response to homelessness in North America. With its growing popularity in Canada comes increasing interest in understanding how the approach...
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Jail is not a solution for our homelessness problem
When we talk about the Canadian response to homelessness, we usually refer to things like emergency shelters, charitable food programs, drop ins and other supports. One of the things we...
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Does the right to protection from crime and violence apply to all youth … even homeless youth?
Would you be outraged if your child was exposed to violence? Would your community consider this unacceptable? That’s what I thought. Then why do we, as a society, tolerate this...
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Should we give money to panhandlers?
The Government of Alberta has announced its intention to put forward a plan that encourages people to refrain from giving money to panhandlers, and instead to give those resources to...