Laural Raine MES'07, Director, Service Planning & Integrity at City of Toronto comments. By聽Donovan Vincent via thestar.com New data that allows the city of Toronto to more closely track the number of homeless people accessing the shelter system shows a steady increase in the amount of new users per month. This week the city released […]
Principal Investigator: Luisa Sotomayor. Partner: City of Toronto. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Term: 2020-2022. The main goal of this Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) project is to build a strong research collaboration between managers and policy officers at the City of Toronto's Shelter Support and Housing Administration (SSHA) division and faculty and researchers at 91亚色 […]
Professor Luisa Sotomayor鈥檚 new SSHRC Partnership Engage project examines community responses to the siting and development of new homeless shelters and supportive housing in Toronto. As Sotomayor explains, 鈥渢he introduction of new housing for a low-income or vulnerable group in a community is typically not without local conflict. In fact, the acronym NIMBY鈥攐r Not-in-My-Backyard鈥攔efers to an increasingly common […]