dc.contributor.author	Gaetz, Stephen
dc.contributor.author	Dej, Erin
dc.contributor.author	Richter, Tim
dc.contributor.author	Redman, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-12T21:21:19Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-12T21:21:19Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	Mass homelessness in Canada emerged in the 1980s, following a massive disinvestment in affordable housing, structural shifts in the economy and reduced spending on social supports. Since then, stakeholders across the country have tried and tested solutions to address the issue. These responses, largely based on the provision of emergency services, have prevented meaningful progress. Fortunately, there are many signs that we are entering a new phase – one that will lead to an end to homelessness in Canada. This next phase is marked by the promising results of the Housing First model across Canada, significant reductions in homelessness in Medicine Hat and Hamilton, federal interest and investment in housing and homelessness, and importantly, the return to a National Housing Strategy – a long overdue conversation in Canada. We know that ending homelessness in Canada requires partnerships across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. It means working upstream to prevent homelessness, as well as providing safe, appropriate, and affordable housing with supports for those experiencing homelessness. With support from all orders of government, a commitment to housing as a human right, and evidence-based solutions we can, collectively, prevent and end homelessness. The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 provides a roadmap for the way forward. Including a series of joint recommendations – drafted by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and the Canadian Alliance to end Homelessness – for the National Housing Strategy.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Stephen Gaetz, Erin Dej, Tim Richter, & Melanie Redman (2016): The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016. Toronto: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-77221-057-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/41240
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	COH Research Paper #12
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.title	The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016	en_US
dc.type	Report	en_US

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