Resources
Annotated review of Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office report on Housing Affordability, 2021.
By David Hulchanski
Socks are not enough: Social justice lies upstream from charity. Rabble blog, December 2014.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathycrowe/2014/12/socks-are-not-enough-social-justice-lies-upstream-charity
Fund affordable housing, not war (Cathy's Op/Ed in the Toronto Star - Nov 15 2007)
The Street Health Report 2007 presents the results of a survey on the health status and needs of homeless adults in downtown Toronto.
From the Grey Nuns to the Streets: A Critical History of Outreach Nursing in Canada by Kathy Hardill
Presentation on Women and Homelessness in Toronto and Canada.
(Slides and speaking notes)
Canadian Nursing Students’ Association
Position Statement: Health and Homelessness
The RNAO (Registered Nurses Association of Ontario)
RNAO Policy Statement on Homeless (2004)
Article in the Globe and Mail –
My Black Bag Made Me Cry by Cathy Crowe (March 2000)
Cathy Crowe's Black Bag Contents - in English & in French
Article in The Canadian Nurse
Nursing Research and Political Change by Cathy Crowe and Kathy Hardill (January 1993)
The Street Health Report
A study of the health status and barriers to health care of homeless women and men in the City of Toronto (May 1992) – Total 77 pages
The first Canadian study on homeless people's health, the Street Health Report was praised by the World Health Organization as critical nursing research.
The report can also be viewed on a chapter by chapter basis.
Section 1 - Table of Contents
Section 2 - Who are the homeless?
Section 3 - Recommendations
Section 4 - Health Status
Section 5 - Access to Health Care
Section 6 - Women's Health Issues
Section 7 - In Their Own Words
Section 8 - Appendices
Section 9 - References and Bibliography