Ten things to know about Canadian attempts to count homelessness through Point-in-Time Counts
Alberta’s seven largest municipalities recently released early results of a provincially-coordinated effort to enumerate and survey persons experiencing homelessness. Most of these communities reported reductions in homelessness, and reported a 19% reduction in...
Ten Things to Know About Federal Income Support for Low-Income Seniors in Canada
Prepared by Allan Moscovitch, Professor, Carleton University; Nick Falvo, Director of Research & Data at the Calgary Housing Foundation; and David Macdonald, Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives In the latest edition of How Ottawa...
Ten things to know about central agencies in Canada
From time to time, voluntary sector leaders—and advocates in general—come up with ideas for new spending and new social programs. When they do this, they often focus too much on influencing elected officials, and too little on influencing senior public servants. ...
Using Data to End Homelessness in Calgary
On March 9, I spoke on a panel in Professor Susan Phillips’ Policy and Program Evaluation course at Carleton University. This is a required course in Carleton’s Master of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership program, and one of the program’s main themes is that...
Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada
This afternoon I gave a presentation at Raising the Roof’s Child & Family Homelessness Stakeholder Summit in Toronto. My slide deck can be downloaded here. To accompany the presentation, I’ve prepared the following list of Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in...
Ten Thing To Know About Homelessness in Canada’s North
On March 5, I gave a presentation on homelessness in Canada’s North at a panel at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. The other presenters on the panel were Peter Collings, Carmen Springer, Josh Louwerse and Sally Carraher. My...