What works : Effective policies and programs for the homeless population in Canada : final report

For Canada, some of the sites included Raising the Roof, Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC); U. S. sites included the Department of Labour, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and in Europe, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANSTA), Communities Scotland, Off the Streets into Work, Office of the [...] The second stage of the work consisted of interviews with key informants in Canada, the U. K. and the U. S. While the scope of the study did not allow for a review of individual initiatives, key informants in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal were asked about what programs were being applied in the individual cities. [...] The complexity of the issue of homelessness, education, and labour market attachment as well as the wealth of research and studies of each of these issues individually has meant that anything but a cursory examination of the issues proved to be beyond the scope of this study. [...] What Works: Effective Policies and Programs for the Homeless Population in Canada 3 4 What Works: Effective Policies and Programs for the Homeless Population in Canada 2. Background: Homelessness 2.1 The Definition of Homelessness The first stage in understanding who is homeless is to define the term. [...] This distinction is important in the conceptualization of the causes since “the first raises the general problem of the connections between poverty and housing, and the second, the question of those types and processes of social exclusion that are exacerbated by the loss of housing” (Edgar, Doherty, and Mina-Coull 1999).