PDF versions of most of these publications are available upon request. Just send Nick an email and he’d be happy to send you a copy of the full report: falvo.nicholas@gmail.com
(In Press). Responding to homelessness in Yellowknife: Pushing the ocean back with a spoon. In J. Christensen (Ed.), Housing, homelessness and social policy in the urban North: Perspectives from Alaska, the Canadian North and Greenland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(2021). Improving housing stability among Indigenous residents at Horizon Housing (Calgary, Alberta). Report commissioned by Horizon Housing.
(2021). Innovation in homelessness system planning: A scan of 13 Canadian cities. Report commissioned by the Calgary Homeless Foundation.
With Suttor, G. (2021). Assessing rent levels in new federally-supported rental housing: An internal report for the City of Calgary.
(2020). Chapter 4: The role of income assistance. In Lindstrom, G., Pomeroy, S. Falvo, N., & Bruhn, J. (Eds.) Understanding flow of urban indigenous homelessness: Examining the movement between Treaty 7 First Nations and Calgary’s homeless serving system of care (pp. 83-107). Calgary Homeless Foundation.
(2020). The long-term impact of the COVID-19 Recession on homelessness in Canada: What to expect, what to track, what to do. Report commissioned by Employment and Social Development Canada.
(2020). Isolation, physical distancing and next steps regarding homelessness: A scan of 12 Canadian cities. Report commissioned by the Calgary Homeless Foundation.
With Jadidzadeh, A. (2020). Determinants of social assistance caseloads for employable single adults without dependents in Canada. Social Policy & Administration, Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12655
With Jadidzadeh, A., & Dutton, D. (2020). Cost savings of housing first in a non-experimental setting. Canadian Public Policy, 46(1), 22-36. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2019-017
(2020). Lifting singles out of deep poverty: The case for increasing social assistance benefits. IRPP Insight 33. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy
(2019). Looking back to move forward: An assessment of progress on the 2014-2019 St. John’s Community Plan to End Homelessness. St. John’s: End Homelessness St. John’s. Retrieved from End Homelessness St. John’s website: https://wecanendit.com/. 70 pp.
With Jadidzadeh, A. (2018). Patterns of exits from housing in a homelessness system of care: The case of Calgary, Alberta. Housing Studies, 34(2), 66-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2018.1432755
With Kalmanovitch, A., Ardelli, B., Collier, L., Hodgins, M., Donnelly, M., & Sinclair, J. (2018). Calgary point-in-time count report, 2018. http://calgaryhomeless.com
(October, 2017). Income inequality and rental housing affordability. Slide presentation at Housing Finance Symposium, organized by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Ottawa, ON.
With Turner, A., Hansen, C., & Rogers, J. (2017). Everyone is home: Yellowknife’s 10 year plan to end homelessness. https://www.yellowknife.ca/. 69 pp.
With Campbell, R. (2016). Calgary Homeless Foundation Research Agenda. Calgary: Calgary Homeless Foundation. 26 pp.
With Campbell, R., & Smith, M. (2016). Calgary point-in-time count report, 2016. http://calgaryhomeless.com/. 40 pp.
With Jadidzadeh, A. (March, 2016). Patterns and determinants of housing first utilization and graduation in Calgary. Slide presentation at the Housing First Partners Conference 2016, Los Angeles, CA.
With Pomeroy, S., & Stoney, C. (2015). Business transformation: Promising practices for social and affordable housing in Canada. Prepared for Housing Partnership Canada. 99 pp.
(March, 2015). Homelessness in Canada’s north. Slide presentation at 2015 Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK.
(November, 2014). Five things to know about the history of housing first in Ontario. Slide presentation at the National Conference on Ending Homelessness, Vancouver, BC.
With Pomeroy, S. (2013). Chapter 14: Pragmatism and political expediency: Housing policy under the Harper regime. In C. Stoney & B. Doern (Eds.), How Ottawa spends, 2013-2014: The Harper government: Mid-term blues and long-term plans (184-195). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
(October, 2013). Homelessness amongst aboriginal peoples in Canada’s territorial north. Slide presentation at Aboriginal Homelessness Research Network Meeting, Calgary, AB.
(June, 2013). Canadian housing policy: 2001 – present. Slide presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Network for Housing Research, Tarragona, Spain.
(March, 2013). The emergence of the Yukon Housing Corporation and the birth of Kwanlin Dun Housing. Slide presentation at 2013 Ottawa-Carleton Northern Research Symposium, Ottawa, ON.
With Pomeroy, S. (2012). Rethinking the role of housing in northern economic development. Prepared for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Northern and Rural Forum. 21 pp.
(April, 2012). Housing First: Implementation challenges and implications for research and policy. Slide presentation at the Working Group Meeting of the National Housing Research Committee, Gatineau, QC.
(April, 2012). The road to Housing First in Ontario. Slide presentation at the Working Group Meeting of the National Housing Research Committee, Gatineau, QC.
(2011). Chapter 12: Who pays, when and how? Government-assisted housing in the Northwest Territories and the role of the federal government. In C. Stoney & B. Doern (Eds.), How Ottawa spends, 2011-2012: Trimming fat or slicing pork? (243-261). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
(2011). Homelessness in Yellowknife: An emerging social challenge. Toronto: The Canadian Homelessness Research Network Press. 26 pp.
(October, 2011). To privatize or not to privatize? That is the question. Guest participant on featured panel at Annual Conference of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. Niagara Falls, ON.
(2010). Chapter 1.5: Toronto’s Streets to Homes program. In J. D. Hulchanski, P. Campsie, S. B.Y. Chau, S. W. Hwang, & E. Paradis (Eds.), Finding home: Policy options for addressing homelessness in Canada Toronto: Cities Centre Press, University of Toronto. 34 pp.
With Abele, F., & Haché, A. (2010). Homeless in the homeland: Growing problem for indigenous people in Canada’s north. Parity, 23(9), 21-23.
(May, 2010). Calm before the storm: The Great Recession’s impact on homelessness. Unpublished paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association. Quebec, QC.
(2009). Homelessness, program responses, and an assessment of Toronto’s Streets to Homes program. Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks. 49 pp.
(May, 2009). The National Child Benefit and social assistance. Unpublished paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association. Toronto, ON.
(2008). The ‘Housing First’ model: Immediate access to permanent housing. Canadian Housing, Special Edition, 32-35.