Amanda Buchnea Canada’s adoption of a Housing First approach at the federal, and in many cases, provincial and local levels has been a positive step in using empirical evidence to develop strategies, programs and policies to end homelessness. However, in general, the response to homelessness has often remained focused on reactive measures, such as emergency…
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Precarious Housing and Psychiatric Disability: How to Ensure Development over Displacement
Shelby Challis Individuals who experience psychiatric disability are too often forced to navigate their way through precarious housing situations and manage these situations with little support. The social conditions of our housing economy are deteriorating to a point where they not only provide little alleviation for those suffering from adverse mental health conditions, but they…
Housing First, Results Second: How Canada’s Program to End Homelessness is Failing
Emma Helfand-Green Everyone seems to be jumping on the ‘Housing First’ (HF) bandwagon. Since it was first introduced in the early 1990s by Dr. Sam Tsemberis with the Pathways to Housing Program in New York City, HF initiatives have been successfully implemented across Europe, the United States, and Canada. The philosophy behind HF is quite…
Out on the Streets: Homelessness in Canada and France
The ‘Public Policy and Governance Review Abroad’, or PPGR Abroad, is a new initiative for 2014. Undertaken in collaborative with exchange students from the Master of Public Policy program at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, it will featured policy insights and analyses direct from Berlin and Paris. Margaret Campbell It doesn’t…
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