Our Homelessness Prevention
Research Agenda
Communities can prevent and end homelessness when they’re informed by credible evidence and are supported by policy and funding. Our research agenda aims to provide the evidence base to address the causes of homelessness and prevent it from occurring.
Research Agenda
Our research agenda aims to generate new insights into homelessness prevention. It’s guided by five intersecting research themes co-created by researchers, community partners, policymakers, and people with lived experience of homelessness.
Core Research Themes
Crosscutting Research Themes
Our Commitment to Decolonize Research
As part of the COH’s Reconciliation Action Plan (in line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action), we prioritize the development of genuine partnerships with Indigenous stakeholders to foster the co-creation and implementation of a meaningful Indigenous homelessness prevention research agenda. We acknowledge the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada, commit to bi-directional learning and capacity building, adopt approaches to research methodologies that embrace hybridity (combining Indigenous and Western methodologies and ways of knowing), and recognize the importance of Indigenous sovereignty regarding the operational implementation of the research agenda.