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Hope at Home: Addressing Our Housing Crisis Together
Homelessness Isn't Always Visible
Home is where you belong. More than simply a place to sleep, it’s where you have privacy, where you can relax, where you feel comfortable and safe.
Too many people don’t experience home. Instead, on any given night about 35,000 Canadians experience homelessness. We sometimes notice people hunched in doorways and alleys or sleeping in tents. Less noticeable are the people staying in emergency shelters or couch surfing. Then there are many more people who don’t show up in official homelessness statistics—people whose economic or housing situation is precarious or whose housing does not meet public health or safety standards (many rooming houses, for example). Homelessness is about more than a place to sleep; it’s about a lack of housing security. Read More >
Why Indwell's Model is so Effective
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What you can do
- Call attention to the affordable housing crisis
Write to politicians and/or political candidates at all levels of government to begin a conversation
- Build your understanding of poverty-related issues both generally and where you live (search “housing and homelessness” to see priorities already established in your city)
- Write letters to the editor for your newspaper in support of affordable housing options
- Walk alongside/advocate for someone who could use support in navigating the systems
- Share social media posts of local poverty advocates and housing providers
- Give to charities that provide affordable housing supports in your city
Regular monthly support enables organizations to provide services without interruption
- Encourage others to donate
Click Here to donate to Indwell
- Match your skills with the needs of housing agencies
Ask how you can participate in their programming
- Apply to sit on your local housing/homelessness coalition or committee
Click Here to find volunteer opportunities at Indwell
- Pray
- Practice hospitality
Include people living in poverty within your circles
- Increase the supply of affordable housing
- Take in a boarder for a reasonable rate
- Build a legal secondary unit if you have the space
- Charge reasonable rent
- Ensure units are well maintained and secure
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Here at Home: Evicted
More Links
Revisionist History Podcast – Season 5 Ep. 10 – “A Memorial for the Living”
Rockerfeller Foundation Podcast – #Solvable Series – “Homelessness is Solvable”
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH)
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Definition of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada
Connecting the Circle: A Gender-based Strategy to End Homelessness in Winnipeg
Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, June 2014 to April 2020
London Poverty Research Centre at King’s
Residential School Survivor Stories
Code Red – Ten Years Later (A Special Report by The Hamilton Spectator)
The First Canadian City to Eliminate Homelessness –Here’s How They Did It
Residents move from tents into cabins at Kitchener’s newest settlement for the homeless
Funding for 1,100 subsidized housing units in Hamilton goes unused
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