Leveraging culturally-relevant urban social housing to address Indigenous youth homelessness and transitions out of government care

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ID2978143
AutoresDarrien Morton (0000-0003-3023-5807, University of Manitoba, autor correspondente), Quinn Conlon (University of Toronto), Quinton Delorme (University of Manitoba), Alex Pierce, Jacqueline Rieu, Rafael Terrain, Fearless R2w, Fearless R2W Fearless R2W, Fearless R W, A R Hatala (0000-0002-8063-5852, University of Manitoba), Andrew Hatala
Ano2024
Volume15
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2024-05-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Indigenous Policy Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1916-5781 • E-ISSN: 1916-5781
EditoraUniversity of Western Ontario, Western Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18584/iipj.2024.15.1.14819
OpenAlexW4399209590
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas42

Indigenous children and youth are overrepresented in settler-colonial child protection systems globally. They experience higher rates of homelessness and housing precarity when leaving care and searching for family and a place to call home. Missing from Canadian policy and research discussions is the role social housing can play to address these realities by providing a social safety net for permanent low-barrier housing. In this article, we highlight a community-based Solutions Lab that analyzed discursive policy constructions of 'youth transition' and explored the implications of austerity-driven social housing reform in a mid-sized metropolitan Canadian city. We illustrate potential challenges and opportunities for leveraging social housing by state governments and private markets which mediate housing precarity, belonging, and cultural conceptions of home

Economic growth · Economics · Indigenous · Political science · Public housing · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies