by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 5, 2013
This paper proposes that designing homeless shelters to acknowledge residents’ important relationships with their possessions can assist homeless persons’ psychological recovery and reengagement with society. This notion is based on consumer culture...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 5, 2013
Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the government of Canada’s 1989 promise to end child poverty by the year 2000. This year’s report card examines the period 1989 to 2011 (the year for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 4, 2013
In this edition of No Fixed Address, our series on homelessness, a student at Laurentian University is studying the lives of ten homeless women… all over the age of fifty. Annie Boucher calls them her “hidden homeless”. She spoke about her findings...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 4, 2013
It’s hard enough to be 18-yrs-old, in school and homeless when you are transitioning from male to female in a shelter where the rules don’t fit. Today, we’re looking at the challenges facing LGBT youth now considered the most vulnerable of vulnerable...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 4, 2013
The following report details the Ontario findings of Food Banks Canada’s annual HungerCount survey. In March of this year, 375, 789 people across the province accessed Ontario’s food banks This is higher than the total population of London, Ontario or of cities such...
