homelessness

Mayor Andrea Horwath says the long-term goal is to have everyone in permanent housing

Governments try to address issues like addiction and mental illness before helping people find housing. That’s the wrong approach.

Paul Wells: Shelters across the country are facing ‘a perfect storm of bad news’ with a vulnerable population and workers without protection

Cathy Crowe: After a homeless person in Toronto tested positive for coronavirus, the government needs to realize that ‘self-isolation’ for this population is a cruel oxymoron

Even if the Trudeau government’s $55-billion, 10-year national housing strategy meets its goals, homeless encampments are unlikely to disappear

Women are more likely to experience ‘invisible homelessness’—a fate that can be exacerbated by gender-based violence

From cheeky plate designs to tchotchkes that help uplift Britain’s homeless, the tired world of royal commemoratives is being swept up by new sensibilities

For many people, McDonald’s is the most reliable shelter on cold winter nights—a symptom of the failings of Canada’s housing and shelter networks

The pioneering, ‘housing first’ experiment inspired other cities and levels of government, providing hope that homelessness is solvable

Opinion: With homelessness funding not tied to outcomes, tens of billions of new spending from Ottawa might not help nearly as much as it could

OPINION: Housing First initiatives are better at combatting homelessness than shelters, and make more fiscal sense for taxpayers, too

Christine Archibald set an example for us all before she was killed in the London attacks, and following it is simple