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Criminal justice involvement amongst youth experiencing homelessness in Canada: Reflections during a pandemic
The criminalization of housing insecurity, and the links between criminal justice involvement and homelessness, has become particularly evident during the pandemic. There has been a heightened law enforcement response to...
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Dignified living for all: Designing housing programs for Indigenous Women and Families
The western definition of homelessness does not address the distinct experiences of Indigenous Peoples. Homelessness for Indigenous Peoples goes deeper and includes their separation from connections to land, place, water,...
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National Research Measures Dangerous Lack of Progress on Addressing Women’s Homelessness in Canada
The State of Women’s Housing Need & Homelessness in Canada report uncovers women’s experience of homelessness and shines a spotlight on the specific challenges they face. It recommends 8 key...
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Youth Homelessness: Mental Health and Substance Use Patterns During COVID-19
How has COVID-19 impacted the mental health and substance use patterns of young people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness? This is one of three questions our team of...
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Harm Reduction in Housing and Shelters During COVID-19
COVID-19 has revealed a lot of inequities. For people that are homeless, it has shown how lack of housing puts people’s health and safety at risk due to inability to...
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Tracing the Experiences of LGBTQ2S Youth in Toronto and Pathways Forward
There are many personal and structural factors that create pathways into homelessness, including natural disasters, relationship breakdowns, unaffordable housing, job losses, and discrimination. Homophobia and transphobia in Canadian families, cities...
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Building a Movement: Launch of The Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network
Women’s homelessness is a crisis in Canada. Across this country, women-identifying and gender diverse peoples experience some of the most severe forms of housing need. Black women, transwomen, Indigenous women,...
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The Use of Homeless Shelters by Indigenous Peoples in Canada
The Canadian Press recently gained access to results of analysis of the use of homeless shelters across Canada by Indigenous peoples. The results are summarized in a March 2019 slide...
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Making Zero Count: Working Towards Ending Homelessness
Getting Started What does it mean to end homelessness? How can we measure progress on the ground? These questions led our community engagement with communities across Canada over the past...
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Home + Health: Better Housing Supports for Women- Identified Homeless Young People with Mental Health Concerns
Today’s blog post presents findings from Eva’s Home + Health: Better Housing Support for Women-Identified Homeless Youth with Mental Health Concerns project. The project received funding from the Women’s Xchange...