Latest Blog Posts
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Indigenous Homelessness
There is No Reconciliation Without Truth: Indigenous Perspectives on Homelessness Prevention
Today the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is releasing Storying Truth and Journeying towards Reconciliation: Indigenous Perspectives on Homelessness Prevention. It gathers stories about what Indigenous homelessness is, where it comes...
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Indigenous Homelessness
Sagatay Creates A New Beginning for Indigenous Men Leaving Incarceration
“For once I saw clarity… I saw hope.” – Ryan, Blackfoot First Nations (Blood Tribe), Standoff Alberta Treaty 7, Sagatay Program Participant For Ryan, leaving incarceration did not mark the...
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Indigenous Homelessness
Stopping the Pipeline from Incarceration to Homelessness for Indigenous Men: Success Stories from Sagatay
If we are serious about interrupting the pipeline from incarceration to homelessness for Indigenous men, we must design programs around the specific needs of the people moving through that pipeline....
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Indigenous Homelessness
Sagatay is a Proven, Cost-Effective Solution that Helps Indigenous Men Thrive Post-Incarceration, So Why isn’t it Being Funded to Scale?
Across Canada, Indigenous men are dramatically overrepresented in the federal correctional system, and they face some of the steepest barriers to successful community reintegration upon release. Decades of investment in...
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General
Schools Can Help Prevent Youth Homelessness If We Build the System Around Them
By the time a young person’s housing crisis becomes visible, the opportunity for early intervention may already be slipping away. The conditions that place a young person at risk often...
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The Raven Program: Long-Term Outcomes From Specialized Supportive Housing for Complex Youth in Alberta
When a young woman named Ellie arrived at Raven, she was 18 years old, six months pregnant, experiencing homelessness, and using substances daily. She had been discharged from the hospital...
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New Research Confirms Housing First Works and Treatment First Doesn’t
A new study out of the United States, led by UC Berkeley researcher Sydney Costantini, provides some of the strongest evidence to emerge in recent years that Housing First not...
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Myths vs. realities of homelessness: A fact check with Laurier experts
This blog was originally posted by Wilfrid Laurier University. According to the latest estimates, nearly 85,000 people across Ontario experienced homelessness in 2025, an increase of eight per cent year...
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Addressing the Racial Knowledge Gap around Black Youth Homelessness and the Criminal Justice System
No two young people follow the same path into and out of homelessness. However, there are certain trends and common risk factors that we can identify and that affect some...
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Announcements
It’s Pride Month! But Don’t Forget About 2SLGBTQ+ Homelessness
The month of June is Pride Month! Pride month activities draw millions of people from all over the world and acknowledge the contributions that 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning,...