{"id":1091,"date":"2021-04-29T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2021-04-29T21:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:00:49","slug":"family-homelessness-lab-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/2021\/04\/family-homelessness-lab-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Homelessness Lab Progress Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a family loses their home, it has significant impacts that can be multi generational. In June 2020 there were 350 Families in Ottawa who were experiencing homelessness. Approximately 50% are refugee or new immigrant Family and 50% are from Ottawa and have become homeless. New statistics will be reported in spring 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Homelessness is best resolved by not allowing it to happen in the first place. Many families are under increasing stress as a larger share of their income is used for housing (income has remained the same but cost of housing is increasing).<\/p>\n<p>Complicating matters even more, the rate of creation of affordable housing units is lower than demand\/need (as evidenced by the everincreasing size of Registry and Wait Lists in Ottawa). The Family Homeless Lab partners have decided to pursue a number of inter-related initiatives using prototype testing with limited sample sizes in a no-risk to participating families, low-cost to project funders experimental framework over the next few months beginning in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/family-homelessness-lab-progress-article-final-april-26-2021-1.docx\">Download the Full Family Homelessness Lab Article [Click Here<\/a>]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a family loses their home, it has significant impacts that can be multi generational. In June 2020 there were 350 Families in Ottawa who were experiencing homelessness. Approximately 50% are refugee or new immigrant Family and 50% are from Ottawa and have become homeless. New statistics will be reported in spring 2021. Homelessness is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-initiatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manorparkcommunity.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}