Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab

As Making the Shift enters its fourth year, its activities have shifted from rolling out calls for proposals to fund original research, to mobilizing the results of research that's beginning to emerge.

Check out their impact report to learn what they achieved over the last year.

Drivers of Homelessness: Webinar 

Community Social Planning Council

Many households are just one personal crisis away from experiencing homelessness due to inequitable systemic conditions.

In this webinar, experts discuss how structural factors and systems failures interact with personal crises to drive people towards homelessness.

Homeless Encampments Through a Human Rights Lens

Alison Brown et al. / Wilfrid Laurier University 

This report compares encampment protocols among seven municipalities. It assesses whether current policies are consistent with a human rights approach to housing and homelessness.

Jörg Dittmann / University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Transdisciplinary approaches challenge us to think about how sectors can collaborate and build effective support structures to prevent and end homelessness. This blog discusses how research, practice, and collaboration across disciplines can be united to improve homelessness services.

10 Things to know about Theory and Homelessness

Nick Falvo / Nick Falvo Consulting

This blog highlights one chapter from an e-textbook that aims to provide an introduction to homelessness for students, service providers, researchers, and advocates. It defines theory and highlights 10 key points about theory and homelessness.