Research and Policy

Emergency shelters offer temporary sleeping accommodation to people deprived of housing and connect them to services. Service restriction is the practice of limiting or denying someone access to emergency shelters. This parallel convergent mixed methods study describes the characteristics, healthcare utilization, and morbidity of people experiencing service restrictions in Hamilton, Ontario, and explores the relationship between health and service restriction. Participants’ high healthcare need and utilization was shaped by criminalization, stigma, societal abandonment, and abstinence-based substance use policies.

Housing is a critical social determinant of health that can be addressed through hospital-supported community benefit programming. Currently, a small subset of hospitals nationally are addressing housing. Hospitals may need additional policy support, external partnerships, and technical assistance to address housing in their communities.

In 2023, satisfaction was high among social housing tenants (almost 3 in 4 tenants were

On 8 December 2023, the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee Act 2023 (the Act) received Royal

Imagine walking through a red door. On the other side of that door, everyone you

Australian housing markets and government housing policies are issue about which I’ve written and spoken

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability’s Final Report

Australia, like most developed countries, has promoted homeownership as an express housing policy goal for

Our analysis shows that across the entire country, only three rentals were affordable for a single person receiving the JobSeeker payment. Nothing was affordable for someone receiving the Youth Allowance.

The research proposes sharing of best-practice examples of tenant participation and program practice guidelines between housing organisations and across sectors through a new Australian Housing Clearinghouse model.