| Phase: |
Theme |
| Theme: | Theme 2 - Sustaining successful EXITS from homelessness (THEME2) |
| Status: | Ended |
| Start Date: | 2020-09-01 |
| End Date: | 2022-02-28 |
| Principal Investigator |
| Dej, Erin |
Project Overview
To prevent youth homelessness it is crucial that we address the unique needs of housing insecure young women. This research explores how loneliness and isolation that occurs before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic impacts young women-identifying people's housing stabilization. Objectives: Determine changes in service provision and the role of informal support in managing isolation during the pandemic to make recommendations on how these integral supports can be formalized. Likewise, develop and implement peer-designed and peer-led workshops to determine recommendations and actionable items to improve the conditions for housing insecure young women.
Outputs
| Title |
Category |
Date |
Authors |
| Girls, homelessness, and COVID-19: The urgent need for research and actionEquitable access to adequate housing has increasingly been recognized
as a matter of life and death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, there
has been limited gendered analysis of how COVID-19 has shaped girls’ access to
housing. In this article we analyze how the socio-economic exclusion of girls who
are homeless is likely to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. We
suggest that three structural inequities will deepen this exclusion: the disproportionate
burden of poverty faced by women; the inequitible childcare responsibilities
women bear; and the proliferation of violence against women. We argue for
the development of a research agenda that can address the structural conditions
that foster pathways into homelessness for low-income and marginalized girls in
the context of COVID-19 and beyond. Wilfrid Laurier University | Publication | 2020-12-08 | Kaitlin Schwan, Erin Dej, "Alicia Versteegh" |
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