by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 Policing and Homelessness Initiative was launched in June 2020, with the goal of documenting the relations between policing agents and people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic. By providing empirical evidence about what is happening,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
On 9 June 2020, I participated in a panel discussion in David Hulchanski’s graduate-level social housing and homelessness course at the University of Toronto. It included perspectives from Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Participants...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
As Canada exits the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgency to permanently rehouse people experiencing homelessness continues to grow. Two concerns loom: the end of the moratorium on evictions, and the loss of current hotels/motels being used as temporary...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Youth Reconnect and The Upstream Project Canada are youth homelessness early intervention prevention initiatives that are based on partnerships between schools and community social service organizations. This blog post discusses the case for the innovative...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jul 2, 2020 | Research
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 researchers, knowledge users, and collaborators – including members with lived...