Homelessness Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Fri, 01 May 2026 14:00:31 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 New data shows steady increase in the number of new users of Toronto’s homeless shelter system /euc/news-story/new-data-shows-steady-increase-in-the-number-of-new-users-of-torontos-homeless-shelter-system/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:32:29 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=news-story&p=4234 Laural Raine MES'07, Director, Service Planning & Integrity at City of Toronto comments. By 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 […]

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]]> Yes In MyBackyard: Demystifying Shelters and Reframing CommunityDialogue about Homelessness in Toronto /euc/research-project/yes-in-mybackyard-demystifying-shelters-and-reframing-communitydialogue-about-homelessness-in-toronto/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:17:00 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-project&p=5527 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 91ÑÇÉ« […]

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]]> Reframing public dialogue about homelessness: Building housing solidarity during COVID-19 /euc/research-spotlight/reframing-public-dialogue-about-homelessness-building-housing-solidarity-during-covid-19/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:16:00 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=1744 Professor Luisa Sotomayor’s 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, “the 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—or Not-in-My-Backyard—refers to an increasingly common […]

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