We create, share and mobilize knowledge on homelessness and housing insecurity in the Canadian North.
October 29, 2020
On October 22, At Home in the North hosted its first intra-Partnership webinar, which featured 4 speakers and was attended by over 45 participants. This webinar series is part of AHIN’s online knowledge mobilization program and is meant to facilitate knowledge sharing between researchers and community organizations within the Partnership. We are currently organizing our next… Read More
October 22, 2020
At Home in the North’s Susane Havelka has released her first book: “Blueprint for a Hack: Leveraging informal building practices”, coauthored with Dave Harlander and Vikram Bhatt and published by Actar Publishers. Book profile: Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an… Read More
October 19, 2020
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October 16, 2020
The K’ásho Got’ı ̨nę Housing Society has released their newsletter profiling the ‘Indigenous Homes Innovation Initiative’, developments towards a ‘Maintenance Program Pilot’, the ‘Kádúyıĺe Transition Home’ and their ‘5-year Strategic Plan’ adopted over the last year. The K’ásho Got’ı ̨nę Housing Society works to support responsible housing and address the housing needs of the residents… Read More
September 25, 2020
Congratulations to At Home in the North’s Dr. Rebecca Schiff, Dr. Carol Kauppi, Dr. Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff and Dr. Julia Christensen with Dr. Kristy Buccieri on receiving a SSHRC Partner Engage Grant for the their project entitled: “COVID–19 and Pandemic Planning in the Context of Rural and Remote Homelessness”. The project is being completed under… Read More
September 16, 2020
We are incredibly excited to announce At Home in the North has received a SSHRC-CMHC Partnership grant!
June 16, 2020
At Home in the North’s Julia Christensen on what we need to learn from innovative responses to northern homelessness under a pandemic.
May 29, 2020
At Home in the North’s director, Julia Christensen and Aimee Pugsley on housing as a social indicator of health and the links between the housing crisis in Canada’s north, the spread of infectious disease, and coronavirus.
April 16, 2020
At Home in the North’s Julia Christensen outlines the connections between the housing crisis and health care in Canada’s north in light of the global coronavirus pandemic.