Category Archives: Housing

Homeless in paradise

Posted on September 1, 1998 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(September 1, 1998) In the 1960s and 1970s, homelessness was virtually unknown in North America, the term not even in public parlance. In 1964, Columbia University researchers scoured four Manhattan parks to count those sleeping there. Continue reading →

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Planners from hell – Food not politics

Posted on March 21, 1998 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(March 21, 1998) In 1988, a group of civic-minded San Franciscans cooked up a plan to address the city’s hunger problem. They convinced supermarkets and bakeries to donate surplus food destined for the trash, stirred up a storm, and served vegetarian fare for free public parks and plazas. Continue reading →

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Local Heroes

Posted on March 21, 1998 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(March 21, 1998) “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” asked Father Emmett Johns. The man Montreal’s street kids call Pops and the founder of the Bon Dieu dans la rue waited for an answer he knew would not come easily. Continue reading →

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Mental Illness and Pathways into Homelessness: Proceedings and Recommendations

Posted on January 16, 1998 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(January 16, 1998) Finding and implications of the Pathways Project. Continue reading →

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Discussion Group, Statistics on skid row

Posted on June 21, 1997 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(June 21, 1997) I volunteer at The Door Is Open, a skid row drop-in centre located beside Oppenheimer Park, the moral centre of the downtown east side Vancouver. I thought I would learn a lot about compassion as a soup kitchen volunteer, but instead I learned a lot about human misery and hopelessness. Continue reading →

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