Tag: homelessness

  • Canadian Homelessness Will End If All Levels of Government Collaborate

    The following video presents The State of Homelessness in Canada, 2013: “The State of Homelessness in Canada: 2013 is the first extensive Canadian report card on homelessness. This report examines what we know about homelessness, the historical, social and economic context in which it has emerged, demographic features of the problem, and potential solutions. The…

  • Invisibly Homeless Canadians + City of Vancouver’s Homelessness Action Week October 13 – 19, 2013

    This video, from CTV Vancouver Island News, presents “Homelessness Action Week” in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. “VICTORIA — Canadians are having an increasingly difficult time putting a roof over their heads and making ends meet. Three and a half million in fact are currently living on or below the poverty line. Here in our province…

  • Your Input: Canadian Poverty Consultation for Ontario Until October 2013

    This video presents “David Hulchanski: Toronto’s Three Cities.” “A new report details three cities within Toronto: the wealthy city, the middle-class city and the low-income city. But if David Hulchanski’s research holds true, there will only be two cities in the near future: the rich and the poor. What has caused this disparity? And what…

  • Update: Symposium’s Synergy Creates New Ideas to Ease Poverty, Homelessness

    Today’s Symposium at Toronto City Hall focused on alleviating poverty and homelessness. About 200 representatives from the non-profit and private sectors and government discussed new ideas, strategies and actions being taken to support the recommendations of the report “In From the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness”. As soon as the…

  • A True Tale of Homelessness

    The following letter of Tom Pearson, Chairman of Poverty Action for Change Coalition (PACC) and ISARC York Region Social Audit 2010 Co-Covenor,  recounts a true tale of homelessness that exists – not in a third world country – but right here in York Region, Ontario, Canada: