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Research
Pursuing Justice: Understanding the Silos Among the Youth Justice and Youth Homelessness Sectors
Youth homelessness and youth justice don’t just overlap – they collide with one another and create repeat patterns in both systems. We don’t talk much about what happens to unhoused...
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Interventions
Upstream Canada Demonstrates the Power of Cross-Sector Collaboration in Preventing Youth Homelessness
Working upstream to prevent homelessness requires more coordinated efforts across sectors, from government to non-profit to private, to align strategies and resources and create a complete working system where no...
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Prevention of Youth Homelessness Conference
Shelter Diversion and Youth Homelessness: Does It Really Work?
After years of investing in efforts to end homelessness, attention is shifting toward understanding which approaches work best to prevent it from occurring in the first place. Preventing youth homelessness...
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Research
Shared Spaces, Shared Futures: Enhancing Belonging Through Intergenerational Co-Housing
What if we brought generations together to solve two big problems at once? Across Canada, many older women live alone. They often feel disconnected and isolated, especially after years of...
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General
2SLGBTQ+ Adult Homelessness and the Importance of Tailored Housing Supports in Toronto
2SLGBTQ+ adults who experience homelessness face unique barriers to accessing safe places to live, including homophobia and transphobia in the private housing market. This is exacerbated by discriminatory policies in...
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Research
Sex Workers Speak for Themselves – Let’s Listen
The Sex Workers’ Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton, Ontario, is a direct-action organization created by and for sex workers. Its focus revolves around three main objectives: Education Outreach Advocacy SWAP Executive...
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Research
Preventing Homelessness in the United States: Evidence, Scaling, and What Works
In the past two years, the United States experienced a significant rise in homelessness, largely due to the migration crisis. Many individuals entered through the southern border, with Texas directing...
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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Affordable Housing Strategies in New Brunswick: A Comparison of Two Municipal Approaches
How do two of New Brunswick’s largest municipalities address the housing crisis? This question guided our analysis when writing “New Roles Amidst Crisis”. Saint John and Fredericton are two mid-sized...
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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Homelessness During the Pandemic: Arts-Based Knowledge Mobilization
Our research teams have been engaging in arts-based research for some time now to make research more accessible. This blog highlights three arts-based research projects developed in Canada, each developed...
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IJOH Special Issue: Homelessness in Mid-Size Canadian Cities
Building Community Resilience to Combat Anti-Homeless NIMBYism
Despite Canada’s progress in addressing homelessness through Housing First initiatives and rights-based approaches, people experiencing homelessness continue to face significant social exclusion. While “Yes in My Backyard” (YIMBY) movements have...