Homes & Homelessness — the CSRL v2 research collection
Sixty-five narrow, deeply-cited finding-pages on Toronto homelessness policy — shelter procurement, HART Hubs, provincial funding architecture, tenant law — from the Civil Society Research Library v2, a complete research project imported here as a frozen component. These pages complement the broader living backgrounders: narrower questions, denser receipts, an intact bidirectional claim↔source chain behind every line.
The synthesis paper
Policy briefs
- Should Ontario restore Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit funding to Toronto to $54 million a year?
- Should Toronto City Council adopt the Ombudsman's 14 recommendations on refugee claimant shelter access?
- Should Toronto maintain and further tighten its encampment clearance enforcement policy?
Toronto finding-pages
- City governance: linking health and homelessness policy, and tracking housing delivery
- Cost per bed night: a computed comparison for Homes First and Dixon Hall
- Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services: an entity profile
- Encampment clearance: policy, votes, and costs in Toronto
- Encampment clearances: past litigation and the City's own response infrastructure
- Federal housing-funding mechanisms: Build Canada Homes and UHEI
- Fred Victor and YWCA Toronto: two more operator financial profiles, and a four-operator total
- Gender and Toronto's homelessness system: mortality, shelter design, and federal funding
- George Street Revitalization and TCHC's capital repair backlog: one flagship project, one system-wide gap
- HSCIS: Toronto's purpose-built shelter strategy — funding, votes, and site opposition
- HSCIS: shelter capital costs, funding status, and the federal funding gap
- Homes First Society: an entity profile
- Housing Accelerator Fund progress and 2026 rental-market conditions
- Indigenous overrepresentation in Toronto's homelessness system, and the funding response
- International homelessness response comparators: Denver, Houston, Rockford, and the UK's Everyone In
- Measuring progress: Toronto's By-Name List, Built for Zero, and the fiscal cost of inaction
- Mortality and overdose data for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto
- Ontario Works: rate erosion against rent and wages, and a built-in shelter penalty
- Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board crisis, and two prevention-focused alternatives
- Private security contracting in Toronto's shelter system
- Refugee claimant shelter exclusion and the Ombudsman's anti-Black racism finding
- Shelter operator executive compensation: a Sunshine List cross-operator comparison
- Shelter violence: a real reporting gap, a case-management finding, and the City's own response
- Shelter-sector workforce conditions and 2025-2026 labour action
- Smaller and specialized Toronto shelter operators: scale, funding mix, and financial-transparency gaps
- Supportive-housing waitlist depth, income-support clawbacks, and UK comparative evidence
- TCHC and social housing vacancy management
- TSSS 2024 budget and operations: the funding split, where it went, and a strain signal
- The Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit's funding cliff
- The Interim Housing Assistance Program's funding cliff, and refugee claimant shelter demand
- The Slaight Family Housing Lab: a $25M coordinated initiative across 8 Toronto shelter operators (2026)
- The corrections-to-homelessness pipeline: deinstitutionalization, benefit cuts, and reoffending
- The hospital-discharge cost cycle for people experiencing homelessness
- Three additional Toronto service providers: corrections, HIV/AIDS housing, and a neighbourhood shelter operator
- Toronto's 2025-2030 Homelessness Strategic Plan: a twice-delayed release, and what its own consultation found
- Toronto's base emergency shelter system: where it actually is, ward by ward
- Toronto's police and crisis-response call volume: a fourth emergency service and its diversion record
- Toronto's shelter hotel program: costs, a documented overpayment, and procurement concentration
- Toronto's shelter system: safety pressures and a real capacity reduction in 2026
- Toronto's social housing waitlist: sustained growth and a low exit rate
- Toronto's toxic drug supply in 2026: new adulterants, regional surges, and what harm reduction is measurably doing
- Toronto's youth shelter system: a capacity gap, and two very different funding models
- Transit and encampment outreach: rising activity, declining referrals, and a comparative benchmark
- Trauma-informed care and crisis support: the evidence base and a Toronto example
- Two supportive housing site histories: Dunn House's hospital-partnership model and Strachan House's closure and rebuild
- Warming centre costs and Central Intake capacity in Toronto
- Winter respite capacity waste and hotel shelter financial oversight gaps
Ontario finding-pages
- HART Hubs: funding, the "no right to stay" gap, and disputed outcomes
- Ontario's 1.5 million homes target: the government's own numbers say it won't happen
- Ontario's Homelessness Prevention Program funding history, and the Auditor General's accountability follow-up
- Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board: the backlog, the funding response, and a data-integrity flag
- Ontario's homelessness count, 2024-2026: revisions, regional disparity, and funding scale
- The Safer Municipalities Act, the income-support gap behind it, and a Charter check on enforcement
Canada-wide finding-pages
- Comparative city homelessness counts and plans: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal
- From withdrawal to partial return: federal social housing funding, 1973 to 2029
- Housing supports for survivors of gender-based violence and Indigenous-led Housing First: three different models
- Houston, Finland, and Calgary: three different trajectories in homelessness response
- Medicine Hat and London: two "functional zero" achievements, and what sustaining them actually took
- National youth homelessness research base: scale, criminalization, and what prevention looks like
- Toronto's shelter data in national context: a cross-city comparison, and a real data-currency caveat