Wonderful work on Black Nursing student mentorship from here at Western University - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When I think about prevention I think about how we also need to empower people through interactions with our systems. In this video I talk about a paper where we proposed advancing the current model on homelessness prevention to also include empowerment in the process: youtu.be/kGKUdUJEVuo

They should just have Bad Bunny do the Superbowl again next year.

The reasons that refugees end up in emergency shelters are different than Canadian citizens or even newcomers of different statuses. This qualitative study was published in the European Journal on Homelessness: youtu.be/pnN--8Mm6_I

London City Council is at a risk of going very much backwards on our homelessness response, shifting more to an emergency shelter focus and placing pre-conditions on Housing First. I have sent all members of Council the following letter: www.abeoudshoorn.com/whats-best-f...

I really appreciate Steve Cordes outlining in this podcast why a "Good Neighbours" policy actually just becomes another barrier to services that are helping marginalized people: the-matt-brown-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/ste...

Many scholars identify "intersectionality" as their theoretical framework, but it's pretty high level. So how does one actually do research that is intersectional? In this paper, myself and my student team unpack how to "do" intersectionality. youtu.be/_j7ufGmMMLQ

An important article that illustrates that homelessness is not always an immediate catastrophe, but for many is a slow slide into poorer and poorer housing conditions: www.barrietoday.com/local-news/o...

And housing benefits are least effective where rent controls are weakest, Canada being a good example of that. In the context of rent control, rent supplements are a safer investment.

Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025 and nearly 2,000 encampments across the province, a new report from Ontario’s municipalities shows. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1161124...

If I'm reading this right, it means that density pays, and low density neighbourhoods are being funded by other neighbourhoods.

Do supervised consumption sites work to reduce disease? Yes But also, perhaps they are about much more than disease? Check out this video summary of our study on the meaning of SCSs on the lives of site users: youtu.be/o7h0tg5gOnA

Jon spent a career in social work with people who are struggling, including providing shelter to people experiencing homelessness. I particularly appreciated Jon's gentle, progressive push of the Salvation Army shelter, an organization with a challenged history - www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

A wonderful list of distinguished Londoners! #LdnOnt lfpress.com/news/local-n...

A Dangerous New Approach to Homelessness - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/14/a...

Can libraries be spaces of mental healthcare? Check out a summary of our brief evaluation on a model implemented in #LdnOnt - youtu.be/bUTY5ubmIlo

What are we doing? WHAT ARE WE DOING? www.reddit.com/r/ontario/s/...

"The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served." - Julian Tudor Hart

Ponència del Dr. Abe Oudshoorn director de The Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing de la Western University (Canadà). Dades i reflexions a l'entorn de les raons del sensellarisme. @udgeducaciopsic.bsky.social @abeoudshoorn.bsky.social

"I am drowning here and you're describing the water" - As Good as it Gets Fran Calvo from the University of Girona explains that research simply enumerating the problems of #homelessness is not the same as providing solutions.

"The new cage on offer from big tech looks so comfortable we are clamouring over each other to get inside." jamesshelley.com/if-you-need-...

I would like to particularly highlight: The role of community housing in counter-balancing explosive growth in real estate prices. 🎧Canada's So-Called Homelessness Strategy | Dr. Nick Falvo open.substack.com/pub/thepubli... @nickfalvo.bsky.social

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The right to take a picture does not remove the ethical responsibility of how pictures can harm people: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For #WesternU faculty and students, should be a good one:

"But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite..." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A nation with a functional housing system would build these instead as social housing: www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Unfortunately, in delivering Housing First, one of the most neglected principles of the model is "consumer choice". In this video I outline our paper and the findings about this gap and why it is so essential: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fG...

In Canada, in school, we study WWII a lot. Like a whole lot, it feels like that and the history of Canada are the top two things we learn. It feels like the LEAD UP to WWII might be something we should study just as much.

Had a chance to see "One Battle After Another" by Paul Thomas Anderson. Hard to compete with some of his others but still a very excellent movie and quite important for our times. I give this one a: RECOMMENDED www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_battle...

This is a worthwhile article to read, and look at the efforts being made to justify using the military against Americans and those on U.S. soil:

Shared on Reddit, hospital CEO nails it on COVID vaccines:

"Where governments deny homelessness exists, researchers and advocates need to guide the changes and make the right to adequate housing a reality." from "The Temptations of Trite" by @abeoudshoorn.bsky.social et al. in Perspectives Journal – Issue no. 4:

In Utrecht for the FEANTSA European Observatory on Homelessness research conference. I always appreciate the European Conference for getting more explicitly into the political context if homelessness than we usually hear in Canada.

Don't tell Fox News these stats

Policy makers have all kinds of ways they avoid making structural change on homelessness. Read our latest article in Perspectives and see if any of these sound familiar: perspectivesjournal.ca/temptations-...

You can read 40 think pieces about why less men than women are going to post-secondary education and none of them will mention this:

On a bench - Leuven, Belgium

Gun control is the only tool that has been shown to drastically reduce deaths by guns.

Right-wing traditional media and now right-wing social media have been telling men for decades that university is a waste of money. Now less men are going to university. The issue is toxic masculinity that has taken over all the feeds young men see. share.google/VKa2gixXXkiw...