Literature Review
Student focus groups weigh in on university housing
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Do housing options affect university student lived experiences, including grade point average (GPA) and graduation? This is a question StudentDwellTO, a research partnership between Toronto’s four universities, has set out to answer. The answer they got was – yes.
Student Placements in Community & Housing Services
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
If youth or their families are struggling to meet some of their basic needs, YSB is there to help them feel safe and cared for. YSB’s Community and Housing Services are designed to provide food, shelter, safety, health services — and even a sense of belonging — for those who otherwise might go without.
University of Alberta: Safe House Program
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
The University of Alberta Safe House Program offers temporary emergency accommodation for current students and their children.
Predictors of Living in Precarious Housing Among Immigrants Accessing Housing Support Services
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that explain immigrant housing vulnerability, thereby contributing to the growth of a more substantial knowledge base on the intersection between immigration, housing and homelessness.
Homelessness & Precarious Housing in Canada: Where We Have Been & Where We are Going
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
In this article, the authors discuss the full extent of homelessness in Canada, including the relationship between a lack of affordable housing and the homelessness crisis. They argue that preventing and ending homelessness is achievable so long as investments, strategies, policies, and practices account for those at risk of homelessness and/or who are precariously housed.
National Housing Strategy: What is the strategy?
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
The National Housing Strategy is the largest and most ambitious federal housing program in Canadian history. Over the next decade, it will invest $115+ billion to build stronger communities and help Canadians across the country access a safe, affordable home. This includes more than $13 billion proposed through the 2020 Fall Economic Statement.
Indigenous Student Services & Initiatives
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Northern College offers a range of supports and activities for our Indigenous student. We also offer workshops and activities for the entire college community to learn about Indigenous culture and traditions.
Poverty and the precarity generation
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Much of the #GenYAsksY discussion focused on the reality facing young people in the modern workforce, which often includes employers engaging in contract flipping, “perma-temp” lifestyles, and the anxiety of entering an unstable economy with an average of $27,000 in student debt. It is clear that the problem is not just about the capacity of young people to get and retain long-term jobs with a living wage.
Over half of all Ontario post-secondary workers show signs of job precarity: Report
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Fifty-three per cent of college and university workers in the province are to some extent precariously employed, according to analysis of Labour Force Survey (LFS) data. The study also includes first-hand accounts of the impacts of precarity from a recent survey of workers.
Starling Community Services
Posted by Tristan Remple on December 26, 2024
Starling Community Services (formerly Lutherwood) is a progressive, not-for-profit health and social service organization that strengthens people's lives by providing mental health, employment, and housing services to more than 16,000 people annually in Waterloo Region and Wellington County.