Ten things to know about homelessness in BC
On February 20, the British Columbia government will table its next provincial budget. With that in mind, it’s useful to reflect on the province’s homelessness crisis—along with the various public policy factors that have likely contributed to it. Here are 10 things...
Ten things to know about Canada’s newly-unveiled National Housing Strategy
On November 22, the Trudeau government unveiled its much-anticipated National Housing Strategy. While much of the Strategy’s content and funding levels had already been broadly outlined in the most recent federal budget, the Strategy provides further detail on the...
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...