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Estimating the number of people experiencing homelessness in Canada has been a source of debate for years. The Homelessness Partnering Secretariat (HPS) has regularly used the estimate that between 150,000 and 300,000 individuals experience homelessness in Canada each year, with advocates often employing the higher number. However, there has never been a concerted, coordinated or consistent effort to enumerate homelessness

The organization that runs social housing in London will need to spend more than $450 million over the next decade to keep its aging buildings in good repair, but that could be a challenge due to a lack of funding. London and Middlesex Community Housing (LMCH), formerly known as the London Middlesex Housing Corporation, presented its 2018 annual report to the

The influential nonprofit Boston Foundation issues its Greater Boston Housing Report Card annually; but this year’s report, released Wednesday, is in several ways a departure from those of prior years. Most notably, the report highlights a facet of Massachusetts policy that it suggests is a kind of elephant in the room that deserves to be singled out: Massachusetts’ long-standing tradition

BANTRY’S social housing need has suffered a setback after a 52-unit development was appealed to An Bord Pleanala. Local councillor, Patrick Gerard Murphy (FF) said the development ‘could have solved a lot of problems overnight if it had gone ahead.’ The director of services for housing, Maurice Manning, agreed with Cllr Murphy’s assessment of the situation. And he confirmed that

The city will need to look at every possible means to cope with the social housing crisis in London. City politicians, meeting as the strategic priorities and policy committee Monday, heard the London and Middlesex Community Housing (LMCH) will need $456 million to repair and maintain social housing stock in the city, of which $60 million is needed immediately for