The Homeless Hub has released a new report, "Can I See Your ID? The Policing of Youth Homelessness in Toronto" that shows that despite strong evidence that panhandling and squeegeeing have declined...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, Ontario
According to the Wellesley Institute, thanks to their quiet efforts as well as other advocates for the city’s homeless, a clause prohibiting “camping,” “dwelling,” and “lodging” on Toronto’s streets...
Homelessness, Ontario
Recently, Mark Horvath, the blogger/filmmaker behind invisiblepeople.tv, visited Toronto to document the lives of its homeless residents. Mark usually resides in Los Angeles, but he left California...
Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario, All of Canada, International
A coalition of community groups in Toronto has created a website to highlight the issue of housing in the upcoming Ontario provincial election and put pressure on political groups to address it....
Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
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...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, LGBTQ, Women, Ontario
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...
Homelessness, Mental Health, Ontario
In early 2010, the John Howard Society of Toronto commissioned a cost benefit study and analysis of Transitional Housing and supports (THS) for two types of ex-prisoners moving to the community from...
Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
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,...
Health, Homelessness, Organizing, Ontario
This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto.
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Ontario
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, Ontario
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.
Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
Covenant House in Toronto has a page of facts and stats about youth homelessness.
Children and Youth, Homelessness, Ontario
"I've been a street nurse in Toronto for 15 years. In the spring of 2004 I received the Atkinson Economic Justice Award which permits me to pursue, for up to three years, my passions for nursing and...
Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee has a teaching guide for issues related to homelessness. Topics include an introduction to homelessness, historical and structural issues, poverty, health (...
Education, Homelessness, Ontario
This coalition of social service agencies is trying to combat homelessness in a unique way: they want homelessness declared a national disaster.
Homelessness, Ontario
OCAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They oppose government policy which targets poor and working people.
Homelessness, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
UNHEARD VOICES was filmed, edited and produced by Mike Yam, and co-produced by Cathy Crowe and Beric German from the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. It is a film that follows the footsteps and...
film, homeless people, Homelessness, stories, street, Ontario
The Coming Together Project is an arts-based community research project exploring how women and transwomen who are marginally housed build support networks with each other in order to survive.
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Women, Ontario
The Right to Housing Blog documents the Right to Adequate Housing Charter Challenge. The court is being asked to declare that homelessness and inadequate housing violate the Charter of Rights and...
charter challenge, Homelessness, Housing, right to housing, Ontario, All of Canada
Toronto Youth Street Stories (TYSS) grew out of the Youth Pathways Project (YPP) conducted by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto. A team of...
art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, stories, street-involved youth, Ontario
