by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
In an age of self publishing – including blogs, videos, and other Web-based media – why do we still seek to publish in traditional academic peer-reviewed journals? Vanity. ResearchImpact-York published two academic papers in 2009. In 2010 we had one in press, two...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Housing first is a crucially important model for addressing homelessness. As mentioned recently by Stephen Gaetz, we need to shift the resources from managing homelessness to focusing on prevention and rapid rehousing. It has been said before, and I say it again,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
How to make friends using social media When I started working on the Homeless Hub website just over a year ago, one of the main goals the Homeless Hub Team had set in place was to grow its audience and thereby its contents’ reach. The website was only 6 months old at...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Stephen Hwang & Emily Holton For the first time in Canada, we have the numbers to show that people who are vulnerably housed face the same severe health problems – and danger of assault – as people who are homeless. This means that the number of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Oct 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
When we talk about the Canadian response to homelessness, we usually refer to things like emergency shelters, charitable food programs, drop ins and other supports. One of the things we don’t talk about enough is the relationship between homelessness and criminal...