New models sought for treating, housing women with addiction issues
Over the years, changing perspectives on addiction and homelessness have influenced treatment and prevention, with people with lived-experience informing and often leading the work. The Jean Tweed Treatment Centre is a community agency dealing with substance abuse,...
Activist experience to aid tenant involvement in huge B.C. suburb
British Columbia has the highest rate of evictions and foreclosure in the country, according to Statistics Canada. Weak tenant protection laws have allowed exploitative tactics to flourish, with developers and landlords using loopholes and intimidation to push tenants...
Training tomorrow’s leaders today!
What inhibits the development of tenant leadership in a region? During a 2019 tour and a Community Support Forum organized in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, tenants living in non-profit or co-op dwellings or low-rental housing pointed, among other things, to feeling...