'If this place wasn't here, I'd be dead'
There were - and still are - doubters who dismissed the Bosman as a crazy, unworkable idea. And who could blame them? The old hotel on Howe Street was refurbished in 2010 to hold 100 of the most...
View ArticleIt's 'almost like you've got friends'
After what seemed like an eternity of bouncing from friends' couches to sidewalks to shelters, Troy Pug-sley has been sleeping in his own apartment for nearly three years. The concept of moving inside...
View ArticleHomeless families a growing concern in Metro
April Davie and her nine-year-old daughter Julia will spend this Christmas in a refurbished Abbotsford motel run by the Elizabeth Fry Society. The closely bonded mom and daughter represent a growing...
View ArticleHousing first, treatment later: Dallas homeless agencies experiment with new...
Grant Wells often wakes up on the back porch of his social worker’s house in East Dallas, having slept off a half-liter of vodka. He is among the hardest of the hard-core homeless, an alcoholic who...
View ArticleNew Vancouver Rent Bank offers up relief for tenants
Marilyn McKee knows how easy it is to end up homeless. And how little it takes to keep a roof over her head. In her case, $350. That's what the Haida jew-elry carver received last year from the iRENT...
View ArticleRiver-camp evictions under way
No good options for homeless, critics say Grand Junction police officer Cory Tomps, with the Homeless Outreach Team, speaks about some of the trash cleaned up along the Riverfront Trail on the...
View ArticleTent City residents say more moving in as they ready to move out
Phil DiNardo looked forward to his eviction on Tuesday. He was disappointed that it was postponed for a week. “It’s still pressure. It’s a mental stress” said DiNardo, better known as “Papa Bear” by...
View ArticleMental Health Commission of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Interim Report reveals...
Report confirms Housing First approach works , Sept. 21, 2012 /CNW/ - The At Home/Chez Soi Interim Report released today by the Mental Health Commission of (MHCC) reveals new information about what...
View ArticleMental Health Commission of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Interim Report reveals...
Report confirms Housing First approach works CALGARY, Sept. 21, 2012 /CNW/ - The At Home/Chez Soi Interim Report released today by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) reveals new information...
View ArticleUnsafe conditions a result of lack of funding: experts
Decrepit and unsafe living conditions are inevitable when people with severe mental health and substance abuse problems are housed in buildings run by non-profits without the funding to provide...
View Article'At Home' and thriving, for now
Two-year-old Elim Connors is a bundle of ferocious energy, bounding into his mother's lap as she reads The Little Engine That Could. Melanie Connors asks the toddler to identify a train, a clown, an...
View ArticleControl group a necessary evil
Tyson Pappas's tiny room is a kaleidoscope of colour inside a dirty, aging Downtown Eastside building, where the multiple locks on his door keep out most everything but the bedbugs. Wall posters, a...
View ArticleMental Health Commission of Canada welcomes Ontario Government announcement
Google Participants in At Home/Chez Soi Toronto project to receive ongoing support CALGARY, Feb. 12, 2013 /CNW/ - The Government of Ontario announced today that it will provide continued supportive...
View ArticleOne more year of housing for homeless
Three hundred formerly homeless people with mental illnesses will not be kicked back onto the streets, even though a cutting-edge project that provided them with housing will end next month. The...
View ArticleNonprofit puts more of Charlotte’s chronically homeless in apartments
The nonprofit Supportive Housing Communities last year faced a neighborhood backlash over its plan to house 100 chronically homeless people in a vacant building in Elizabeth. The project died soon...
View ArticleJourney to the dark side of town
On a cold evening in early spring, Jay Barton carried several sheets of cardboard under his right arm. He wasn't going to turn them into moving boxes. He was going to use them to make his bed for the...
View ArticleDespite gains, people still sleep on the streets
Shawna Taylor has called the Downtown Eastside home for 30 years, but during those decades she has not always had a safe, clean home. She has survived homeless shelters and decrepit, scary SRO hotels...
View ArticleHarper government invests in Housing First homelessness initiatives in...
WHITEHORSE, July 30, 2014 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is investing close to $1.8 million in funding through the Council of Yukon First Nations to combat homelessness in Whitehorse and across...
View ArticleCamden shuts down its tent cities
By Blake Ellis @blakeellis3 May 14, 2014: 1:18 PM ET Tent city residents lose their homes Camden, N.J. (CNNMoney) For Michael Powell, a 53-year-old ex-convict, his tent off the highway in Camden, N.J.,...
View ArticleWhat you learn about humanity from living on the streets
Passers-by mainly ignore me, a homeless woman sitting on the sidewalk or a bench. The people who do speak to me are either curious, or harpies who give me unsolicited and useless advice, or the more...
View ArticleLandmark research shows housing first approach proves effective (University...
(Source: University of Winnipeg) Landmark research shows housing first approach proves effective Posted on: 06/20/14| Author: Communications | Categories: All Posts WINNIPEG, MB -New research findings...
View ArticleHow Phoenix Ended Chronic Homelessness Among Our Veterans (City of Phoenix, AZ)
(Source: City of Phoenix, AZ) Jan. 28, 2014 When campaigning for office, Mayor Greg Stanton pledged that tackling Phoenix's homelessness problem would be one of his top priorities. A city is measured...
View ArticleShare costs of dealing with homelessness
Special to the Star-Telegram Having recently addressed reports on homelessness, affordable housing and concentrated poverty, the Fort Worth City Council seems to understand that the causes of...
View ArticleModels and caveats in homelessness efforts elsewhere
They sleep under tarpaulins, in tents pitched atop pallets next to a swamp, on sidewalks in alleyways, along embankments at the bayfront. The homeless may go unseen from day to day, but they're...
View ArticleIn homelessness efforts elsewhere, models and caveats
They sleep under tarpaulins, in tents pitched atop pallets next to a swamp, on sidewalks in alleyways, along embankments at the bayfront. The homeless may go unseen from day to day, but they're...
View ArticleTo help Miami’s homeless, increase available housing
Louis, a 47-year-old from Liberty City, sleeps alongside the Miami River with his girlfriend, a recent northern transplant. They avoid downtown, fearing violence and police who shoo them around. Louis...
View ArticleSingle-room hotel residents face many health issues: study
More needs to be done to address the health of people living in single-room occupancy hotels in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, says the author of a new study published Friday in the American Journal of...
View ArticleResidents protest 'renovictions'
For 10 years, Lynn Stewart has lived in a small room at the Chelsea Rooms on West Hastings in Vancouver. Long retired from a medical job, she makes ends meet on a pension. For all the troubles she's...
View ArticleVancouver needs help to end homelessness
With less than a year before a selfimposed deadline to end street homelessness, Vancouver city manager Penny Ballem says the goal cannot be met unless the city gets more support from the province and...
View ArticleTreating alcoholism with alcohol? Absurd harm reduction strategy has worked...
Community groups in Vancouver’s drug-ridden Downtown Eastside have been on the forefront of Canada’s foray into implementing harm reduction strategies, providing clean needles for heroin users and even...
View ArticleSpeaking Notes for the Honourable Candice Bergen to the Housing First...
(Source: Embassy of Canada in France) Speaking Notes for the Honourable Candice Bergen, Minister of State for Social Development, to the Housing First Partners Conference on The Canadian Story: A...
View ArticleHarper Government Invests in Evidence-Based Housing First Homelessness...
(Source: Department of Employment and Social Development of Canada) June 25, 2014 - Surrey, British Columbia - Employment and Social Development The Harper Government is investing more than $41 million...
View ArticleGround-Breaking New Brunswick Research Shows that Housing First Approach...
At Home/Chez Soi program achieving real results, say Canada's mental health leaders MONCTON, NB, May 27, 2014 /CNW/ - New research findings were released today in Moncton by the Mental Health...
View ArticlePioneering Vancouver scheme 'helps 500 homeless transform their lives' study...
A group of homeless people who were taken from emergency shelters and correctional facilities to be housed in apartments scattered across Vancouver in a new initiative, have transformed their lives,...
View ArticleGround-Breaking Research Shows that 'Housing First' Approach Working to End...
At Home/Chez Soi program achieving real results, say Canada's mental health leaders OTTAWA, April 8, 2014 /CNW/ - New landmark research findings were released today by the Mental Health Commission of...
View ArticleHarper Government Invests in Evidence-Based Housing First Homelessness...
SURREY, BC, June 25, 2014 /CNW/ - The Harper Government is investing more than $41 million in funding through Metro Vancouver as it implements Housing First, a proven, evidence-based approach to end...
View ArticleTen San Francisco strategies that could work in Vancouver
Rob Turnbull, CEO of Streetohome, was part of a Vancouver delegation that went to San Francisco in June to study what that city is doing to reduce homelessness. San Francisco and Vancouver are similar...
View ArticleHousing partners raise awareness during Homelessness Action Week (Government...
(Source: Government of British Columbia) NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release 2013MNGD0019-001546 Oct. 13, 2013 Ministry of Natural Gas Development and Minister Responsible for Housing Housing partners...
View ArticleNational homelessness study released (University of Winnipeg)
(Source: University of Winnipeg) National homelessness study released Posted on: 04/08/14| Author: Communications | Categories: All Posts, Community, Research Dr. Jino Distasio, Associate...
View ArticleProgram places at-risk youth in furnished urban apartments
Instead of a room in a shelter or a Downtown Eastside hotel, some atrisk youth are living in furnished apartments in urban highrises thanks to an initiative by a property management company and a youth...
View ArticleLandmark research shows Housing First approach proves effective in Winnipeg,...
WINNIPEG, June 20, 2014 /CNW/ - New research findings were released today in Winnipeg by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) that underscore the clear effectiveness of the Housing First...
View ArticleCIHR funding to extend At Home/Chez Soi research in Toronto
Long-term effectiveness of Housing First to address homelessness to continue to be studied CALGARY, Sept. 3, 2013 /CNW/ - New funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is ensuring...
View ArticleNew research results show that the Housing First approach contributes to...
MONTRÉAL, June 12, 2014 /CNW/ - The Mental Health Commission of Canada's landmark research project on homelessness and mental health - At Home/Chez Soi - today released the results from its Montréal...
View ArticleHousing prospects plunge with frozen welfare rates
Rents are going up for the people who didn't get a raise. For residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that subsist on welfare, the housing shortage in Vancouver is going from bad to worse. Even a...
View ArticleLeft to pick up his own pieces
Who knew growing up is a long process of shame, blame, self-hate, etc. Who noticed me sober are those that have truly stood by my side. Whats to come over the next few years of my life may be a lot of...
View ArticleApartments outscore SROs for mentally ill
Mentally ill people placed in apartments scattered across the city break the law less and live happier lives compared to those put in hotel-style buildings, according to a national study on...
View ArticleStudy supports scattered social housing
A five-year study that housed people with mental illness and drug addictions in apartments scattered throughout Vancouver found most participants stabilized their lives and coexisted peacefully with...
View Article'When you are 18 or 19, you are not thinking about adult things'
Ashley Crossan has a bedroom in a non-profit housing project, and is determined to finish high school and find a job. This may not initially sound like the plot of a success story, but it is, compared...
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