Wednesday, December 23

Homelessness & Housing in Calgary

Heath said...
Hey folks, I'm working on a project looking at the causes of homelessness among adults between the age 50-64. This group is ineligible for many gov't income supports and has few possibilities to receive subsidized housing.

I'm currently working on a project on the shelter needs of women who became homeless for the first time after age 50.

Jennifer said...
Hey Heath, are those projects connected? Would you be willing to share the link to the tool you recently developed with the Faculty of Social Work? PS. Do you know how you post articles on this thing!?

Jhalvorsen said...
I just spent six hours in a meeting discussing coordinating the two family shelters in Calgary. I am also trying to learn all about how to successfully mix tenants in affordable housing so we can make healthy communities, drawing people from both low-income and homeless situations with a mix of incomes, issues and strengths.

Jennifer said...
Hey Jeff, I think this is a complicated and excellent idea (can I say, experiment?).
How is the project coming?
Is it a challenging process to gain the support of middle/high income individuals or families to actually take part?

2 comments:

  1. Yes, I agree the tenant mix project is quite interesting. It is something that Heath will get a crack at when he joins us in January!

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  2. I saw an episode of 4Real where they were addressing this issue in Vancouver...and they interviewed this lady Liz Evans who started The Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver-i don't know if you've heard of it but it seems to be a pretty good model for housing the homeless and perhaps researching her and this society would lead to answers to some of your questions about the shelter needs of women over 50. Here are some links:

    http://www.4real.com/liz
    http://www.sharedlearnings.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Prof.dspProfileFull&profilesid=18131194-83ff-4f31-aea0-37e8756b3d0e

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