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Interventions

Early Intervention and Prevention: How the COSS Model Shapes Australia’s Approach to Youth Homelessness

The Community of School and Services (COSS)   has become a key player in homelessness policy discussions across Australia. This evidence-based approach aims to prevent youth homelessness by proactively identifying...

IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities

Wherever Precariously Homed People Are, Their Belongings are at Risk

Imagine that you could only keep with you the belongings you could physically carry or wheel around. What would you keep? And how would you feel if everywhere you went,...

IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities

Peer to Community: Supporting Community Integration Following Homelessness in a Mid-Sized City

Amid a housing and homelessness crisis across Canada, we often lose sight of the needs of individuals beyond the security of housing. A range of studies show that Housing First is more effective...

Research

Steps Towards Indigenous-Led Coordinated Access in London, Ontario

In a report published in April 2025, the Action Research on Chronic Homelessness (ARCH) team from Atlohsa Family Healing Services in London, Ontario, shared a series of recommendations about how...

IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities

Anti-Homeless Discrimination Linked to Citizenship

NIMBYism (Not in My Backyard) is a pervasive form of discrimination against people experiencing homelessness, where housed community members typically target proposed or existing agencies, programs, or buildings that serve...

Interventions

Direct Cash Transfers: Re-imagining Homelessness Prevention through Dignity and Choice

What Are Direct Cash Transfers? Direct Cash Transfers (DCTs) are unconditional payments made to individuals experiencing poverty or homelessness, based on a simple, powerful principle: people are the experts of...

IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities

Homelessness in the Headlines: How Canadian Media Covers the Issue in Three Mid-Size Cities

Public understanding of social concerns, and response to them, are influenced by media portrayals. This is true of homelessness: whether through traditional newspapers or social media platforms, the narratives we...

IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities

‘It’s An Angry Community’: Misperceptions of Homelessness in Mid-size Cities

Homelessness is often seen as a big-city issue, but mid-size cities are also facing a growing crisis. While homelessness has existed in these communities for decades, it has largely taken...

IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities

Not Only in the Big City: Using the Canadian Housing Survey to Assess Homelessness in Mid-Size Cities

There is no doubt that data shapes how we understand an issue and what we do about it. Across the country there are various efforts to collect more accurate, substantial...

Prevention Matters!

The Transformative Power of Housing First for Youth

The Prevention Matters! series, hosted by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, brings brilliant minds together to explore evidence-based strategies designed to prevent homelessness before it starts. During the ninth episode...