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Shared Spaces, Shared Futures: Enhancing Belonging Through Intergenerational Co-Housing
What if we brought generations together to solve two big problems at once? Across Canada, many older women live alone. They often feel disconnected and isolated, especially after years of...
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Sex Workers Speak for Themselves – Let’s Listen
The Sex Workers’ Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton, Ontario, is a direct-action organization created by and for sex workers. Its focus revolves around three main objectives: Education Outreach Advocacy SWAP Executive...
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Preventing Homelessness in the United States: Evidence, Scaling, and What Works
In the past two years, the United States experienced a significant rise in homelessness, largely due to the migration crisis. Many individuals entered through the southern border, with Texas directing...
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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Affordable Housing Strategies in New Brunswick: A Comparison of Two Municipal Approaches
How do two of New Brunswick’s largest municipalities address the housing crisis? This question guided our analysis when writing “New Roles Amidst Crisis”. Saint John and Fredericton are two mid-sized...
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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Homelessness During the Pandemic: Arts-Based Knowledge Mobilization
Our research teams have been engaging in arts-based research for some time now to make research more accessible. This blog highlights three arts-based research projects developed in Canada, each developed...
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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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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...