More Canadians than ever lack a home. Almost every town and city now has homeless residents. Municipalities scramble to provide shelters, and local politicians debate whether to take action to end sleeping on vacant land and in parks.

Ending Homelessness in Canada gets at the root causes of homelessness and the solutions and practices that can be employed to end it. Contributors involved in working to end homelessness address the key factors producing homelessness and describe a wide range of innovative measures to halt the flow.

The contributors:
Cecile Arbaud is the executive director of Dans La Rue an organization dedicated to assisting youth experiencing homelessness. She lives in Montreal, QC.

Robert Byers is the president and CEO of Namerind Housing Corporation, a provider of affordable housing to the Indigenous community. He lives in Regina, SK.

Art Campbell is the regional director of Reintegration and Social Inclusion for YMCA Quebec. He lives in Montreal, QC.

Erin Dej is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She lives in Cambridge, Ontario.

Pearl Elidas is an associate professor at the university of McGill and an esteemed lawyer with over a decade of experience including work with the UN and the Canadian Human Rights Commission. She lives in Montreal, QC.

Dr. Stephen Gaetz is the director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and a professor at York University. He lives in Colborne, ON.

Eric Latimer is a research scientist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and a professor in the department of psychiatry at McGill university. He lives in Montreal, QC.

Georges Ohana is the director of Homelessness prevention and research at the Old Brewery Mission, the largest organization serving homeless people in Quebec. He lives and works in the great Montreal Area of Quebec.

Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat works within the Women's National Housing & Homelessness Network. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Michael Rice was born and raised in Kahnawake and is a Kanien’kehà:ka (Mohawk) of the Bear Clan. With over 35 years of experience institutional development specialist focusing on housing, commercial developmental business, and infrastructure financing he brings wealth of experience to the project. He is married with two sons and resides in Kahnawake.

Kaitlin Schwan is the executive director of the Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network. She lives in Toronto, ON.

JAMES HUGHES lives in Montreal and has worked as a senior administrator in social services for more than fifteen years. He is the founding president of the Montreal non-profit Youth Employment Services and served as director general of the Old Brewery Mission, Quebec's largest centre serving the homeless. He was the deputy minister of social development in New Brunswick from 2008 to 2011 and is now the president of the Graham Boeckh Foundation. He has published articles on social policy in Policy Options and Literary Review of Canada as well as a book, Early Intervention: How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money.

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