This month's episode of Out of the Streets of Portland focuses on the Housing First model, a research-based practice which rapidly ends homelessness, is cost-effective, and positively impacts quality of life and community functioning. This model is particularly effective among people who have been homeless for long periods of time and have serious psychiatric disabilities,
With thousands now estimated to be experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg, one expert says the answer could be a strategy the government has since "pumped the brakes" on.
In a partnership between federal and municipal governments, Finland created a non-profit corporation call the Y-Foundation that has had tremendous success at putting people in homes and helping them stay there