Homelessness in Canada: Issues and Challenges

Running head: HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA
HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA
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1HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA
Christensen, J. (2012). “They want a different life”: Rural northern settlement dynamics and
pathways to homelessness in Yellowknife and Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The Canadian
Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien, 56(4), 419-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-
0064.2012.00439.x
This article discusses the issue of visible homelessness particularly in the Northern
Territories of Canada especially in the Yellowknife and Inuvik. Homelessness in these two
communities excessively has affected the Aboriginal northerners of Canada, however there is
a very little information about their individual pathways to homelessness. This issue is
confined to the larger urbanizing regional centres. However, many of the homeless
Aboriginal northerners have found to be originated from some small and rural settlement
communities. The article has pointed out that the government has paid little attention to the
factors where small communities intersect to increase the level of homelessness as well as
shape the territorial geography. In this particular article the author has revealed the hidden
factors that constantly contribute in the more visible forms of homelessness in the Northern
Territory. There is some particular dynamics among the rule communities and the northern
urban centres. These latter centres provide opportunities for which the rural settlements flow
towards the urban settlement. This article reveals the chronic housing requirement among the
homeless people which remain untouched. Moreover, there is a problem of disintegration in
building the social relationship in the settlements. The author of this article has explored
these factors influencing the rural‐urban migration among the homeless population in
Canada.
Grinman, M., Chiu, S., Redelmeier, D., Levinson, W., Kiss, A., & Tolomiczenko, G. et al.
(2010). Drug problems among homeless individuals in Toronto, Canada: prevalence, drugs of
choice, and relation to health status. BMC Public Health, 10(1).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-94