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Homelessness Among Older People: Assessing Strategies and Frameworks Across Canada
Amanda Grenier
Rachel Barken
Tamara Sussman
David W. Rothwell
Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin
This article reports the results of a content analysis of the Canadian government planning documents on homelessness conducted in 2014. A total of 42 local provincials and federal strategies were reviewed to assess the extent to which they recognized and targeted the needs of older people. The review resulted in three document categories...
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Addressing Intersecting Housing and Overdose Crises in Vancouver, Canada: Opportunities and Challenges from a Tenant-Led Overdose Response Intervention in Single Room Occupancy Hotels
Geoff Bardwell
Jad Boyd
Alexander Collins
Taylor Fleming
and Ryan McNeil
This journal examines the acceptability, feasibility, and implementation of the Tenant Overdose Response Organizers program (TORO)--a tenant-led naloxone training and distribution intervention. The project was implemented in privately owned single room occupancy (SRO) hotels that were disproportionately affected by overdose in Vancouver'...
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North America
What We Heard About Poverty in B.C.
This report reflects the thousands of voices of people from all over the province of British Columbia who participated in the poverty reduction consultation, a meeting that was designed to give people room to share their experiences of poverty and to share their ideas for improvement.  The many voices represented in this report will help...
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7 Cities on Housing and Homelessness: Alberta Point-in-Time Homeless Count
7 Cities on Housing and Homelessness
This report presents data collected by the 2018 Point-in-Time count in Alberta, Canada, focusing on seven cities: Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Grande Praire, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, and Red Deer. According to this report, there were 5,735 people counted as experiencing homelessness during the count, the majority of which were in...
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The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness leads a national movement of individuals, organizations and communities working together to end homelessness in Canada.
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Nothing About Us Without Us: Seven Principles for Leadership and Inclusion of People with Lived Experience of Homelessness
Lived Experience Advisory Council
During the 2014 Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness conference in Vancouver, a group of individuals came together with a common goal: to ensure that individuals with lived experience received equitable representation from service providers, researchers, policy makers, and others, so that they can better understand and tackle the...
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Housing in Canada's big cities
This source provides an update on housing affordability and availabity in Calgary, enabling a broader understanding of housing supply trends, gaps and implications and specifically, the current state of the affordable housing segment.  According to this source, Calgary’s housing supply differs substantially from other Canadian cities....
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A Profile of Poverty in Edmonton Update
John Kolkman
A Profile of Poverty in Edmonton was first published in January 2015 to describe the landscape of poverty in our city and to serve as a benchmark for the City’s EndPovertyEdmonton initiative. This report updates many of the poverty trends and challenges identified two years ago within the context of broader social and economic trends in...
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2015 Homeward Trust Edmondon Annual Report
Antony Chum
A Buchanan
Homeward Trust is a community-based organization that provides leadership and resources toward ending homelessness in Edmonton. We fulfill our mandateby leading initiatives and programs, engaging community stakeholders and partners, conducting research, creating awareness, and funding housing and support projects.
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