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2017-01-01
Anderson-Baron, Jalene T., Collins, Damian
This article investigates how Housing First (HF) is practiced in Alberta, Canada, with a focus on the concept of graduation. The dominant HF model, Pathways, holds that client support should be time-unlimited. However, HF is highly mobile and increasingly characterized by ambiguity and drift away...
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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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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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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...
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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...