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Homelessness - Linksno place like home vancouverApril 21, 2008 - 12:48pm
http://www.noplacelikehomevancouver.org/ - The no place like home website documents a complaint to the UN by the PIVOT Legal Society, Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition (IOCC) about the housing conditions of Vancouver's poorest residents. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Homelessness | Housing | Human Rights )
Carnegie Community Action Project's BlogApril 9, 2008 - 12:13pm
http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/ - The Carnegie Community Action Project's blog has news and information on housing, homelessness, and actions in the Downtown Eastside. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Blogs | Homelessness )
The Alliance to End Homelessness OttawaApril 3, 2008 - 1:19pm
http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/ - The Alliance to End Homelessness is a coalition of community stakeholders in Ottawa committed to working collaboratively to end homelessness by gaining and promoting a better understanding of homelessness and advocating for strategies to end it. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Homelessness )
The Houseless ProjectFebruary 20, 2008 - 11:25am
http://www.myspace.com/houseless - The Houseless Project is a project focused on bridging the gap between those that live on the streets and other people in the community by publishing and selling poems written by people who live on the streets. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Blogs | Homelessness )
The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco (COH)February 13, 2008 - 11:06am
http://www.cohsf.org/ - The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco (COH) initiates program and policy changes that result in the creation of exits from poverty. The COH unites homeless people and service providers with concerned community members in outreach, advocacy, and community organizing activities to ensure that low-income communities are in a leadership position in the work to promote social justice in San Francisco. ( categories: Links | United States | Homelessness | Organizing )
Finding our Way HomeJanuary 17, 2008 - 1:14pm
( categories: Links | British Columbia | Blogs | Homelessness )
Picture the Homeless BlogNovember 5, 2007 - 11:30am
http://www.picturethehomeless.org/blog/ - Picture the Homeless Blog - Housing, homelessness & policy blog. ( categories: Links | United States | Blogs | Homelessness | Organizing )
Community Action on HomelessnessNovember 5, 2007 - 11:22am
http://www.cahhalifax.org/ - Community Action on Homelessness works in partnerships within our community, to advance community solutions that address homelessness, and the right to a home as a key to the "quality of life" for everyone in our community. ( categories: Links | Nova Scotia | Homelessness )
Squatter City BlogOctober 30, 2007 - 10:35am
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/ - Squatter City Blog is a blog about squatters and squatter cities around the world written by a New York-based writer who spent two years living in squatter communities in four continents. ( categories: Links | International | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing )
Abandonment IssuesOctober 23, 2007 - 1:24pm
http://abandonment-issues.blogspot.com/ - Abandonment Issues is a Toronto-based coalition of housing activists fighting to get abandoned and underutilized buildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housing. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing )
Streams of JusticeAugust 1, 2007 - 10:09am
www.streamsofjustice.org - Streams of Justice is a faith-based blog with many articles on homelessness, poverty and other social justice issues. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Blogs | Homelessness )
City Wide Housing CoalitionJuly 27, 2007 - 9:52am
citywidehousingcoalition.org - The City Wide Housing Coalition is a coalition in Vancouver working to save and build low income housing. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Homelessness | Housing | Organizing )
Monarch Housing AssociatesJuly 26, 2007 - 1:44pm
monarchhousing.org/blog- This blog provides news and commentary on ending homelessness and expanding supportive housing in New Jersery, USA. ( categories: Links | United States | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing )
Picture the HomelessJuly 24, 2007 - 8:54am
www.picturethehomeless.org - Picture the Homeless is a homeless-led organization in New York that fights for the civil and human rights of homeless people. Picture the Homeless is founded on the principle that in order to address the root causes of homelessness, people who are homeless must develop a collective, effective voice for systemic change. ( categories: Links | United States | Homelessness | Organizing )
Formerly HomelessJuly 12, 2007 - 8:11am
housecanada.blogspot.com/ - Formerly Homeless is a blog about the homeless and homelessness in Canada written by a formerly homeless social/community worker. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Canada | Blogs | Homelessness )
Homeless Nation BlogsJuly 11, 2007 - 12:21pm
homelessnation.org/en/blog - Homeless Nation, a website created for and by homeless people in Canada hosts blogs for people living in poverty. You can read other blogs or sign up and get your own blog. ( categories: Links | Blogs | Homelessness | Media )
David Eby's BlogJuly 11, 2007 - 8:49am
davideby.blogspot.com - David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty. ( categories: Links | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing | Legal Research | Poverty Research )
The Centre on Housing Rights and EvictionsJune 11, 2007 - 3:53pm
http://www.cohre.org - The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an international independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the prevention of forced evictions. ( categories: Links | International | Homelessness | Housing )
The London Homeless CoalitionApril 6, 2007 - 9:01am
http://www.londonhomelesscoalition.ca - The London Homeless Coalition exists to advise, shape, and coordinate the community's responses to homelessness and related needs, for the London area. ( categories: Links | International | Homelessness )
Raising the RoofJune 30, 2006 - 2:13pm
http://www.raisingtheroof.org/ - A national charity which works to develop national and local strategies to prevent and end homelessness. ( categories: Links | Canada | Homelessness )
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