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From Research to Action: Understanding Coordinated Access and Homelessness in Ontario
Recently, the International Journal of Homelessness Research published an article that I co-wrote with Mary-Anne Martin, the postdoctoral fellow at the Research for Social Change Lab (RSCL). The...
Naomi NicholsJuly 09, 2024
Lessons from an urban centre: COVID-19 mobilizes new collaboration in the City of Toronto, highlights what it would take to shift towards prevention of youth homelessness
In Toronto, Ontario, the COVID-19 pandemic placed an already-strained homelessness shelter system under greater...
Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation LabMay 09, 2022
National Day of Awareness and Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many...
Canadian Observatory on HomelessnessMay 05, 2022
Moving Beyond the VI-SPDAT: Integrating Your System’s Values into Prioritization
Written by Alliance Research Council member Marybeth Shinn (Organizational Development Professor, Department of Human...
National Alliance to End HomelessnessMay 04, 2022
10 Things to Know About Housing in the 2022 Federal Budget
On 7 April 2022, Canada’s Minister of Finance tabled Canada’s 2022 Federal Budget. It included important commitments...
Nick FalvoApril 29, 2022
10 things to know about what causes homelessness
I’m writing an open-access e-book on homelessness and have just released Chapter 1 titled “What causes homelessness?”...
Nick FalvoApril 12, 2022
A Cultural Approach to Aboriginal Homelessness in Australia
As Australia’s most marginalized group and one of the most poverty-stricken First Nations peoples worldwide, the...
Lara SilbertApril 04, 2022