by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
On 7 April 2022, Canada’s Minister of Finance tabled Canada’s 2022 Federal Budget. It included important commitments for climate change, dental care, Indigenous Peoples and Ukraine. Additionally, it included measures requiring financial institutions to assist with...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 12, 2022 | Research
I’m writing an open-access e-book on homelessness and have just released Chapter 1 titled “What causes homelessness?” The PDF version of the full chapter is available here. Here are 10 things to know. 1. Structural causes of homelessness determine whether a community...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
As Australia’s most marginalized group and one of the most poverty-stricken First Nations peoples worldwide, the housing market continues to leave Aboriginal Australians out in the cold. Addressing Aboriginal homelessness requires empowerment, cultural security,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) was founded in 2008 thanks to a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant that supported partnership building between academics, the homeless-serving sector and beyond. In the years that followed, we...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are a group of university educators, front-line workers, people with lived experience of homelessness and sector leaders from Hamilton, Ontario. For the past two years, we have worked together as a project team leading a ‘Community University Policy Alliance’...
