The streets of many U.S. cities reveal an urgent reality: The current systems for addressing homelessness aren’t working. Lack of affordable housing and behavioral health resources, as well as poor coordination among programs and providers, are the most well-known...
After attending a talk on homelessness in Los Angeles six years ago, Rachel Sunday felt that she needed to help. “I wanted to do something,” she says, “but I didn’t know what.” Sunday, a resident of LA’s Westchester neighborhood, thought about it for a couple of...
Subscribe: RSSLondon, Ontario recently became the first community in Canada to functionally end veteran homelessness. The significant milestone was made possible thanks, in large part, to the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness led by Tim Richter and their Built for...
Homelessness is one of the many simmering systemic issues that the pandemic has brought to a boil. Interrelated challenges of inequality, joblessness and evictions have put 30 million people at risk of losing their homes. Yet there is a silver lining: More...
Subscribe: RSSSince 1982 Blue Door Shelters has been providing safe and supportive emergency housing for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto. And their work has received much-deserved acclaim. But, with the problem of homelessness unrelenting, the organization...