Eviction and Homelessness:

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Eviction and Homelessness

• Understanding Eviction, Eviction Prevention, and
  its Relation to Homelessness

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Cost Effectiveness of Eviction Prevention
Programs (CMHC, 2005)

• Acacia Research Consulting (Ottawa)
• Jeff Sommers (Vancouver)
• Linda Lapointe (Toronto)
• Tim Welch (Waterloo)

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Acacia Research Consulting (Ottawa)
• Jeff Sommers (Vancouver)
• Sherrie Tingley (Ottawa)
• Patricia Richards (Halifax)

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Cost Effectiveness of Eviction Prevention
Programs (CMHC, 2005)
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Cost Effectiveness of Eviction Prevention
Programs (CMHC, 2005)
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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Characteristics of tenants who face eviction
• Best practices of eviction prevention models for
  populations at risk of homelessness
• Key points of intervention in the eviction
  process and corresponding approaches to eviction
  prevention

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Economically secure
• Economically disadvantaged
• Significantly disadvantaged
• Significantly in need of support to maintain
  housing

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)
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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Preliminary themes
• Limited amount of eviction data in British
  Columbia and Nova Scotia

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Preliminary themes
• Substandard housing

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Preliminary themes
• Complexity of eviction experiences

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Preliminary themes
• Eviction and homelessness

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Preliminary themes
• Access to services

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Cycles of Homelessness Understanding Eviction
Prevention and its Relationship to Homelessness
(HRSDC, ongoing)

• Proposed dissemination
• Plain-language 'fact sheets'
• Newsletter article
• Newspaper editorial
• Half-day learning forum