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2018-11-15
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2019: The rising costs has made housing in Canada less affordable. The goal of this one-year partnership is to identify what is required to build a resilient and sustainable community housing sector in Canada. Drawing on the knowledge and capacity of the sector itself, we will...
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2020-01-01
Collins, Damian, Stout, Madeleine
Housing First (HF) operates on the premise that permanent housing is the first need of people experiencing chronic homelessness. It understands housing as a resource to which everyone is entitled, not a privilege that must be earned. In these respects, HF is consistent with housing as a human...
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2014-11-01
Collins, Damian, Tymko, Morgan
Smoking bans have recently expanded to private vehicles in which children are present. This study considers the place of children’s rights and children’s voices in this policy initiative, with respect to the Canadian context, where vehicular smoking bans have been widely adopted. First, we...
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2022-06-01
Stout, Madeleine, Collins, Damian, Evans, Josh
Weather is an elementary and fundamental characteristic of place. In any given place we encounter the materiality of weather, local meanings attached to weather, and practices adopted in response to living with weather. Winter cities are places defined by their weather—long, cold winters that can...
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2018-06-01
Stout, Madeleine, Collins, Damian, Stadler, Sophie L., Soans, Ranon, Sanborn, Emma, Summers, Robert J.
A winter city is any urban centre that experiences a long, dark, cold, and/or snowy winter. The Winter Cities movement is a more precise concept, referring to cities taking an active role in becoming more appealing and functional in winter, primarily through physical interventions. The movement...
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2018-01-01
Anderson-Baron, Jalene T., Collins, Damian
Housing First (HF) is an increasingly widespread and influential response to chronic homelessness. Programs using a HF approach typically rely on market apartments to house homeless clients as rapidly as possible. This reliance means HF programs are dependent on the availability and affordability...
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2021-01-01
Stadler, Sophie L., Collins, Damian
The notion that Housing First (HF) is a human-rights based approach to housing some of society’s most vulnerable citizens is often alluded to in the literature, but seldom interrogated. In this paper, we examine whether HF in Alberta, Canada is practiced in a way that realizes the right to...
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2021-01-01
Evans, Josh, Stout, Madeleine, Collins, Damian, McDowell, Kenna
Historically, governmental responses to homelessness in Canada have defaulted to the most basic of services such as food and shelter. Even under exceptional circumstances, such as the current coronavirus pandemic, governments still demonstrate reluctance to guarantee permanent, adequate and...
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Prevalence and causes of urban homelessness among Indigenous peoples: A three-country scoping review
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Anderson, Jalene T, Collins, Damian
A scoping review was carried out to investigate the prevalence and causes of urban homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Relevant information was sought from both academic and grey literatures. Data on prevalence were sourced from homeless count reports....
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Intersecting Barriers: The Production of Housing Vulnerability for LGBTQ Refugees in Alberta, Canada
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McDowell, Kenna, Collins, Damian
Canada’s National Housing Strategy acknowledges that identity factors are closely connected to housing vulnerability. Specifically, it identifies 12 groups at heightened risk of negative housing outcomes in Canada. In this research, we focus on the intersection of two of these groups: LGBTQ...