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Mar 20, 20213 min read

Healing by Design. The benefits of trauma-informed design in supportive housing.

My goal is to raise awareness about the proven benefits of evidence-based design through a trauma-informed lens. While this is...

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Dec 19, 20202 min read

"Safe and Welcoming Spaces" - Is this what it looks like?

This image blew up on Twitter about a month ago. It's Toronto's new 100-bed shelter in the Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place which...

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Dec 12, 20202 min read

Why don't they just go to a shelter? But would you want to be here?

There is a great deal of stigma around homelessness and much that reinforces those negative perceptions. "Shelters and other housing...

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