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Poverty is a health issue: it’s time to address housing and homelessness
Housing insecurity and homelessness have significant health impacts. The poorest neighbourhoods have the worst quality housing and the worst health profiles. Health impacts of poor housing include increased incidence of...
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Facing Homelessness: Evaluating Systemic Responses to Homelessness
Facing homelessness is a reality in urban and rural centres across Canada. It is a reality for those experiencing it and for those who care deeply about ending it. Even...
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Prisoners’ Justice Day
For 37 years, Prisoners’ Justice Day in Canada has stood for, and been hailed as, a somber reminder of the unnecessary deaths of Edward Nalon on August 10th 1974 and...
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Strategies to End Homelessness: Current Approaches to Evaluation
Many programs and policies in Canada and around the world have preventing or reducing homelessness as a goal. Do these programs really work? What kinds of programs have been evaluated?...