This new research explores alternatives to shared housing as a transitional strategy for Toronto’s chronically homeless population, and exposes a fragmented and confusing system that lacks a focus in developing long term, sustainable strategies for integration into the community. Jacques Tremblay demonstrates homelessness as a health and housing problem, and calls for inter-agency cooperation and integration, as well as intra-system integration. Tremblay’s research supports harm reduction as a critical component to break the cycle of chronic homelessness, and includes several recommendations including flexible programs and program funding to meet the changing needs of real people.
Jacques Tremblay, Action Consulting, Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute