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We are fortunate in Calgary to have the Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership (DOAP) and the Encampment Team through Alpha House Society, an agency serving vulnerable, at risk Calgarians. Their focus is to interact with individuals where they’re at, and to support them in addressing their n...
On a frigid December night in Calgary, shoppers carried presents along the downtown light-rail transit corridor, passing dozens of people huddling in doorways or near heated bus shelters. Three people, surrounded with shopping carts, used cardboard boxes and an umbrella to try and st...
This report is the fifth in a series of biennial surveys of various downtown Calgary shelter and non-shelter service providers on May 17th to determine both the numbers of homeless persons who were served by such services and observed sl... TCO Calgary,C Strategies,P& Planning 被引量: 0发...
However, when the lockdowns were lifted, the homeless were displaced out of the transit hubs to allow those returning to daily activities to do so without directly observing homelessness. This impacted access to shelter for PEH. Since 2020, visible homeless encampments appear to be increasing in...
Calgary's employment rate is correlated with the incidence of homelessness (r = 0.88) but not Toronto's (r = 0.28). Individual-level characteristics associated with shelter use could not explain the yearly fluctuations in risk of homelessness in Calgary, but macroeconomic indicators are correlated...
Additionally, Dave Howard, HOH president, stated that the Calgary HOH project has faced “concerns about veterans endangering the neighbourhood children” [53]. These evidences suggest that future tiny home projects in Edmonton and Alberta could also face NIMBYism. Nevertheless, there are ways to ...