Knowledge Dissemination: Blogging vs Peer Review

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...

Policy, Public Perceptions, and Personal Engagement

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,...

To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

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...

Jail is not a solution for our homelessness problem

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...