Conference Goals

Building on the momentum of the first Canadian Conference on Homelessness , held in 2005 at York University, Growing Home: Housing and Homelessness in Canada supports continuance of the following goals:

• Providing a venue for sharing ideas, experiences, research and practices about homelessness in Canada.
• Addressing a broad range of issues contributing to the complexity of homelessness and focus on diverse homeless sub-populations.
• Engaging all stakeholders in discussions about homelessness in order to reduce the socio-economic, sectoral, and geographical divisions that act as barriers to knowledge mobilization.

In addition, Growing Home: Housing and Homelessness in Canada has added a fourth goal:

• Developing a national coalition of persons dedicated to ending the Canadian housing crisis.