April 11, 2012
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness has been formed to create a national movement to end homelessness in Canada from the community up.
Keywords: Homelessness, Campaigns and initiatives, All of Canada
November 2, 2011
The Newfoundland and Labrador Housing and Homelessness Network (NLHHN) is a group of community-based service providers, municipal, provincial and federal departments and agencies, and representatives...
Keywords: Homelessness, homelessness in Newfoundland, Housing, service providers, Campaigns and initiatives, Newfoundland, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education
October 17, 2011
From PeacockPoverty:
PeacockPoverty is a collection of individuals with an experience of poverty who join together to share knowledge, strength, talent and wisdom with each other and our friends....
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Human Rights, Media, Organizing, Poverty Research, Unemployment, Welfare, General resources, Multimedia, All of Canada, International
June 15, 2011
Compared to the Canadian-born, immigrants are under-represented among Canada’s homeless population, when their decline in economic wellbeing is considered alongside their relative absence in homeless...
Keywords: Homelessness, Immigrants and Refugees, Reports and documents, All of Canada
June 15, 2011
This article compares heterosexual and sexual minority street-involved youth across a number of sociodemographic, risk and current mental health, victimization and delinquency measures with a...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Homelessness, LGBTQ, Women, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 15, 2011
In London, Ontario, discharges from psychiatric wards to shelters or NFA occurred 194 times per year. This discovery led to the creation of a pilot project that provided immediate access to a housing...
Keywords: Homelessness, Mental Health, Ontario, Reports and documents
June 15, 2011
Calgary’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness (10 Year Plan) was launched in 2007 by Calgary’s Committee to End Homelessness and in January of 2008, the Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) was chosen to...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Reports and documents
June 1, 2011
National Homelessness Conference, Growing Home: Housing and Homelessness in Canada, the second national conference on homelessness, was held in Calgary, Alberta from February 18 to 20, 2009.
Keywords: Homelessness, General resources, All of Canada
June 1, 2011
City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community control of local...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
Take Back the Land is an activist group out of Miami that asserts their right to the land in their communities and the use of public space for the public good- specifically, to house, feed and...
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, General resources, United States
June 1, 2011
Edmonton Coalition On Housing and Homelessness (ECOHH) was created in 1980 to address housing and homelessness issues in Edmonton. Many community organizations and individuals are active participants...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Organizations
June 1, 2011
Megaphone is a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver by homeless and low-income vendors. Vendors buy the paper for 50 cents and sell the magazine to customers by donation. All money from the...
Keywords: Homelessness, Media, British Columbia, General resources
June 1, 2011
A campaign about the hidden homeless. People who live in cars, on friend's couches, and in temporary beds in church basements or abandoned buildings. They are adults with full-time jobs. Many are...
Keywords: Homelessness, Campaigns and initiatives, All of Canada
June 1, 2011
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) is involved in a range of housing assistance services in Ohio, including homeless prevention, emergency shelters, transitional housing and...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
Street Health works to improve the health and well being of homeless and underhoused individuals in southeast Toronto by addressing the social determinants of health through programs, services,...
Keywords: Health, Homelessness, Organizing, Ontario, Organizations
June 1, 2011
This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Homelessness, Ontario
June 1, 2011
The website of Homelessness Action Week, organized in Metro Vancouver by the Regional Steering Community on Homelessness. The website has news, resources, and information on homelessness and how to...
Keywords: Homelessness, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Yukon
June 1, 2011
Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness is comprised of people from a variety of government bodies, social service agencies, faith communities and policing departments as well as concerned private...
Keywords: Government Policy, Homelessness, British Columbia, Organizations
June 1, 2011
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...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives
June 1, 2011
Homeless People & Homelessness is an international website about homelessness with a homeless newsfeed that links to stories from 4,500+ news sources.
Keywords: Homelessness, General resources, International
June 1, 2011
The Carnegie Community Action Project's blog has news and information on housing, homelessness, and actions in the Downtown Eastside.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, British Columbia
June 1, 2011
The Calgary Committee to End Homelessness is working for all people facing homelessness in Calgary will have access to affordable, safe and appropriate housing as well as the resources and supports...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Organizations
June 1, 2011
Victoria Street Newz is an alternative independent media site and street newsper out of Victoria that focuses on the root causes and effects of poverty, homelessness, and environmental degradation.
Keywords: Homelessness, Media, British Columbia, General resources
June 1, 2011
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) is a non-partisan, charitable organization operating in BC since 1966. SPARC BC focuses on social justice issues and works together with...
Keywords: Disability, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty Research, Welfare, British Columbia, Organizations
June 1, 2011
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...
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Ontario
May 30, 2011
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...
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
Picture the Homeless Blog - Housing, homelessness & policy blog.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Organizing, United States
May 30, 2011
Real Change is a street newspaper, an advocacy group, a Homeless Speakers Bureau, and literary program out of Seattle. They aim to build bridges among the poor, homeless and the greater community,...
Keywords: Homelessness, Media, Organizing, Panhandling, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
Poverty Olympics is a site put together by a group of concerned citizens and community groups who want the 2010 Winter Games’ legacy to be one of reducing, not increasing, poverty and homelessness.
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, Poorbashing, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives
May 30, 2011
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.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Media, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
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.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, International
May 30, 2011
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.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Ontario, Organizations
May 30, 2011
David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Research, Poverty Research, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
A new HRSDC website, Indicators of Well-being in Canada presents comprehensive, up-to-date information on the well-being of Canadians and Canadian society, including Homeless Shelters and Beds, Low...
Keywords: Homelessness, Poverty Research, Welfare, General resources, Government information, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
Finding our Way Home is David Chudnovsky's blog on his tour of the province as the NDP MLA BC Critic for Homelessness and Mental Health. He is wanting to hear experiences, challenges, hopes,...
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
Calgary Housing Action Initiative is a coalition of individuals affected by the housing crisis, other allies in the community, organizations, support agencies, political groups, politicians, and...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Housing, Campaigns and initiatives
May 30, 2011
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...
Keywords: Homelessness, Nova Scotia, Organizations
May 30, 2011
Streams of Justice is a faith-based blog with many articles on homelessness, poverty and other social justice issues.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
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...
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
This blog provides news and commentary on ending homelessness and expanding supportive housing in New Jersery, USA.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, United States
