May 1, 2004
A new National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) report (in PDF)(Link removed - No longer exists) on women who are homeless is based on interviews with 46 women who self-identified as homeless in...
March 14, 2004
Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Planning and Development department has recently instituted a webpage devoted to housing and homelessness in the Halifax area. The 89 page report The Portrait of...
January 11, 2004
In December 2000, the Seniors Housing Information Program (SHIP) received funding to research the emergency shelter and services needs of seniors and older adults living outside of the Downtown...
November 23, 2003
Blogs are an online diary of sorts. TheHomelessGuy.net attempts "to relate to you the realities of homelessness. But there is certainly more to a homeless person than being homeless, and this may be...
November 21, 2003
"Feds, provinces, territories fail to meet commitments as nation-wide affordable housing crisis grows worse" say the National Housing and Homelessness Network's recent report card. Three key demands...
August 30, 2003
A Salvation Army homeless shelter in Whitehorse managed to avoid having to close down for the summer. It looked like the shelter wasn't going to have enough money to provide services to the city's...
August 27, 2003
The Report of Preliminary Recommendations for the Aboriginal Homelessness Plan (Link removed - No longer exists) was recently released. Among others: "A priority that was identified by committee...
July 21, 2003
While all levels of government talk about a national housing strategy and curbing homelessness and poverty, tens of thousands of Canadians including thousands of children are paying the price for our...
January 17, 2003
The City of Toronto is one of the few cities that has an "extreme weather alert" program. Weather is monitored over the winter months and when extreme weather is predicted members of the designated...
January 17, 2003
The findings of A Street Needs Assessment: An Investigation of the Characteristics and Service Needs of Persons who are Homeless and not Currently using Emergency Shelters in Ottawa (in PDF),...
