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At Home in Winnipeg: Localizing Housing First as a Culturally Responsive Approach to Understanding and Addressing Urban Indigenous Homelessness
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2018-08)
Advancing Coordination of the Winnipeg Homeless Sector
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2017-05-23)
This is the Final Report of the project, ‘Advancing Coordination of the Winnipeg Homeless Sector’. Over the last year, there have been efforts in the homeless serving community to map out service gaps and needs, and to ...
Enhancing Delivery Models and New Partnerships
Recent years have witnessed a shift in the nature of models to deliver housing and support services for low income and marginalized groups in society. This shift has been prompted in part by a change in the role governments ...
Literature Review on Issues and Needs of Aboriginal People
This literature review identifies the needs, issues and service gaps facing Aboriginal people1 living in, or moving to, urban municipalities, and helps municipal governments develop strategies to address these needs, forge ...
Panhandling in Winnipeg, Volume 1 Legislation vs. Support Services
This volume presents the results of field observation of panhandling activity throughout the study area in Winnipeg. Maps in this section indicate the distribution of panhandlers as observed throughout the study area, ...
Home is Where the Heart is and Right now that is Nowhere: An Examination of Hidden Homelessness Among Aboriginal People's in Prairies Cities
This research examined hidden homelessness among Aboriginal persons in prairie cities. In particular, data were gathered in Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Regina that focused on better understanding the shelter circumstances of ...
Voices from the Margins: Experiences of Street-Involved Youth In Winnipeg
In this study we sought to hear the voices of street-involved youth. We wanted to give them a forum through which to tell their stories. We wanted to know: 1) How they came to be involved with the street? 2) What their ...
Measuring homelessness : a review of recent research
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1995-01-01)
Homelessness has been an issue of acute concern for a long time. The topic has stimulated research initiatives in different disciplines for the past couple of decades. The focus of these research initiatives have been ...
Proceedings: Preventing Evictions and Managing Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-05-17)
On Nov.10 2011, the Institute of Urban Studies conducted a workshop on Managing for Successful Tenancies. The goal of this workshop was to develop an eviction prevention strategy for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's ...