Book Review: Indigenous Homelessness
Evelyn Peters and Julia Christensen recently wrote an edited book on homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Excluding the Introduction and Conclusion, more than half of the chapters are either authored or co-authored by an...
Ten Things to Know About Social Assistance in Alberta
This is part two of a two-part blog series on social assistance. Part one, which looks at social assistance across Canada, can be accessed here. As recently noted by my colleague Rachel Campbell, last fall’s Point-in-Time (PiT) Count of persons experiencing...
Book review: Understanding spatial media
Rob Kitchin, Tracey Lauriault and Matthew Wilson recently co-edited a book titled Understanding Spatial Media. Published by SAGE, this book is about technology, power, people, democracy and geography. Here are 10 things to know about the book. 1. The book can help us...
Second Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
On May 18, 2017, the Second Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative took place in Calgary (all slide presentations, as well as photos from the event, are available here). The event was organized by the Calgary Homeless Foundation and the University of...
Monitoring Program Performance in Calgary’s Homeless-Serving System of Care
Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) recently unveiled new key performance indicators (KPIs)for programs they fund.[1] These new indicators were developed after nine months of community consultation and have been piloted over the course of the past year. A May 2017 slide...
Ten Things to Know About Social Assistance in Canada
The present blog post is the first in a two-part series on social assistance. (Part two, which looks at social assistance in Alberta, can be viewed here). The series is inspired by recent data captured in Alberta’s 2016 Point-in-Time Count of Homelessness suggesting...