Hi, my name is Nova and this blog was created as an assignment for my Homelessness in Canadian Societies’ class. In this blog you can expect to find information about homelessness, more specifically on what homelessness is (hint: it’s not just beggars and street sleepers) and what are the major causes of homelessness and some solutions to help battle against homelessness. This blog will challenge the common misconceptions about homelessness and ways to help those faced with homelessness. Many of you readers may ask why I choose this topic to start my blog on homelessness, and here’s my reason why: because the way to fight against homelessness is to inform the public on what is homelessness and what social forces and factors are is causing people to leave their homes and live on the streets.

Think of this blog as an introductory to homelessness – and ways to battle so that homelessness is yesterday’s problem, not todays nor will it be tomorrows!

(Image Source: Washburn, R. (2014). Hidden homelessness should be election issue. consider-this.ca, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved from http://consider-this.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Homeless-Sign.jpg)