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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Building Community Resilience to Combat Anti-Homeless NIMBYism
Despite Canada’s progress in addressing homelessness through Housing First initiatives and rights-based approaches, people experiencing homelessness continue to face significant social exclusion. While “Yes in My Backyard” (YIMBY) movements have...
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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Homelessness Planning in Small Canadian Cities: Service Provider Needs for Organizational Change
Homelessness is not just an issue affecting large urban centres – small and medium-sized cities across Canada are also increasingly facing challenges addressing homelessness. However, these cities often lack the...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...