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September 21, 2020 - Today's federal funding announcement is a step in the right direction
The Speech from the Throne is this Wednesday. Telegraphing government priorities we may expect in the speech, today the Federal...
Sep 21, 2021


Homeless Memorial Service
Please join us in remembering and honouring those who have lost their lives while experiencing homelessness and poverty. December 20th,...
Dec 6, 2018


The 2018 Halifax Shelter Use Report is Now Available
Now available in the Policy, Research and Development section of our website, this report summarizes the use of emergency homeless...
Nov 28, 2018


Everyone Counts: Halifax Point in Time Count Data Report Now Available
A report and analysis of Halifax 2018 Point in Time Count homelessness data is now available. This report highlights survey results from...
Nov 28, 2018


Dartmouth - Assessment of street involved population using an evidence-based framework
WHAT ARE THE NEEDS OF THE STREET INVOLVED POPULATION IN DARTMOUTH? DOES DARTMOUTH NEED A SHELTER/CRISIS CENTRE? This research has been...
Oct 19, 2018


Street Assessment of Dartmouth Street Involved Population
An evidence-based framework was developed and an assessment of Dartmouth street population was conducted in 2018. The project was...
Oct 4, 2018


Everyone Counts: Report on the 2018 Halifax Point in Time Count
This report highlights survey results from the visibly homeless population, predominantly engaging with the formal shelter system in the...
Jul 11, 2018
New Publication Released: "The lights? Don’t worry about the lights. It’s way too late for that."
A new document has been added to the Research, Policy and Development page on our website. The report examines the results of multiple...
Jun 4, 2018


The lights? Don’t worry about the lights. It’s way too late for that.
“What’s the housing situation for non-elderly single person households who reside in the communities served by our Rural Advisory Board...
May 30, 2018


Halifax Shelter Use Report 2018
This report summarizes the use of emergency homeless shelters in Halifax. The first section contains an overview of the shelter system,...
Apr 25, 2018


Precarious Housing and Homelessness Across Our Rural Communities
An initiative of local housing coalitions and stakeholders. Shelburne - Yarmouth - Digby - Annapolis - Kings - West Hants REPORT PREPARED...
Mar 1, 2018


What to Make of Housing Poverty in Halifax
by Grant Wanzel To readers, we recommend that this paper be read as a whole and for what it is: a broad but sincere effort to identify...
Jan 10, 2018
New Reports! Halifax Housing Trilogy
Through our trio of studies, Juniper Littlefield, Adriane Salah, and Grant Wanzel have hoped to deepen our understanding of housing...
Jan 5, 2018


Halifax Housing Trilogy
Through a trio of studies, we have hoped to deepen our understanding of housing poverty in Halifax. What does it mean to be ‘at risk’: as...
Nov 15, 2017


What to Make of Housing Poverty in Halifax
This Report presents an alternative critique to the conventional wisdoms around homelessness and housing poverty. It argues that CMHC’s...
Nov 1, 2017


Homelessness Partnering Strategy - 2016 Community Progress Indicators Report
Community Progress Indicator (CPI) Reports allow communities to assess the progress of their collective efforts to reduce and prevent...
Jan 10, 2017


2016 Community Progress Indicators Report
by Employment and Social Development Canada Community Progress Indicator (CPI) Reports allow communities to assess the progress of their...
Feb 23, 2016


Provincial Housing Strategy - An Affordable Housing Association Perspective
by AHANS, Grant Wanzel There is much to be done but there is much that can be done immediately. The Province will find a willing,...
Jan 1, 2013


Halifax Report Card on Homelessness 2012 - Third Report
by AHANS The Report Card on Homelessness documents the current state of homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality, using...
Nov 19, 2012
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