A Cultural Study of Poverty and Homelessness in Canada

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Explores the homelessness crisis through the lens of Canadian social policy formulation focusing on connections between past policy decisions and current problems. Evaluates policy solutions and contextualizes the Canadian experience with that of other jurisdictions. Themes include: mental illness and addiction; racial, gender and age determinants of poverty and homelessness past and present; Indigenous homelessness; neoliberalism; inequality and the politics of defining and measuring poverty.