Lucie Richard
@lucierichard.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate, Adjunct Scientist & Health Geographer focussed on homelessness @ MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions
Chercheuse adjointe axée sur la santé des personnes en situation d'itinérance en Ontario
Chercheuse adjointe axée sur la santé des personnes en situation d'itinérance en Ontario
Thank goodness, common sense prevails.
Ark Aid scores $3.7M in city funding — more than expected — following heated debate | CBC News
London City Council agreed to continue funding Ark Aid's emergency shelter and daytime drop-in spaces for another year, to the tune of nearly $3.7 million.
www.cbc.ca
April 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thank goodness, common sense prevails.
📢 New study on #COVID19 burden among #homeless in Toronto is now in PLOS One.
Researchers scrambled in the early days to publish ASAP to respond to the pandemic. But 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 can be 𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲, & mess with our understanding of virulence, fatality & Long COVID.
A short thread 🧵
Researchers scrambled in the early days to publish ASAP to respond to the pandemic. But 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 can be 𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲, & mess with our understanding of virulence, fatality & Long COVID.
A short thread 🧵
February 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I was just thinking this today. Headed breakneck speed toward Gilead, Maddaddam, or (more likely) some horrible hybrid of the two.
I wonder sometimes if @margaretatwood.bsky.social is actually a time traveler prevented by time paradox from just telling us what's coming.
I wonder sometimes if @margaretatwood.bsky.social is actually a time traveler prevented by time paradox from just telling us what's coming.
I read handmade in my 20s, and then reread it about 6 years ago. I couldn't watch the series, it gave me anxiety. She is very prescient. Her Maddadam trilogy is chillingly accurate. The US is a few years away from what happens in book 2. Great trilogy!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/YAM/t...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/YAM/t...
The MaddAddam Trilogy
Buy books online and find book series such as The MaddAddam Trilogy written by Margaret Atwood from PenguinRandomHouse.com
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February 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I was just thinking this today. Headed breakneck speed toward Gilead, Maddaddam, or (more likely) some horrible hybrid of the two.
I wonder sometimes if @margaretatwood.bsky.social is actually a time traveler prevented by time paradox from just telling us what's coming.
I wonder sometimes if @margaretatwood.bsky.social is actually a time traveler prevented by time paradox from just telling us what's coming.
It's bonkers that #ldnont doesn't have 24hr warming centers in the dead of Canadian winter.
For sure, let's do the longterm solutions eg affordable/supportive housing. But don't forget to do what's needed to make sure homeless folks survive til then...
www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
For sure, let's do the longterm solutions eg affordable/supportive housing. But don't forget to do what's needed to make sure homeless folks survive til then...
www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
‘State of Emergency’: Eight frontline agencies call on Council for overnight warming centres for homeless Londoners
An open letter to City Council from eight frontline agencies implores City Council to open a warming centre for the over 320 Londoners currently living outdoors as temperatures have plummeted.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It's bonkers that #ldnont doesn't have 24hr warming centers in the dead of Canadian winter.
For sure, let's do the longterm solutions eg affordable/supportive housing. But don't forget to do what's needed to make sure homeless folks survive til then...
www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
For sure, let's do the longterm solutions eg affordable/supportive housing. But don't forget to do what's needed to make sure homeless folks survive til then...
www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
Finally, a half decent estimate for how many folks are homeless in Ontario.
You can't fix what you can't even measure.
AMO shouldn't have to do this. The data sources are all administrative, so Ontario (or the feds) could have produced something like this all along.
You can't fix what you can't even measure.
AMO shouldn't have to do this. The data sources are all administrative, so Ontario (or the feds) could have produced something like this all along.
🧵The AMO has released a devastating report about the state of homelessness in Ontario, which gives us our most accurate figure of how many Ontarians are currently homeless: 81,515 — a 25% increase in two years — of whom 41,512 are chronically homeless. amo.on.ca/sites/defaul...
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Finally, a half decent estimate for how many folks are homeless in Ontario.
You can't fix what you can't even measure.
AMO shouldn't have to do this. The data sources are all administrative, so Ontario (or the feds) could have produced something like this all along.
You can't fix what you can't even measure.
AMO shouldn't have to do this. The data sources are all administrative, so Ontario (or the feds) could have produced something like this all along.
"We don't want to punish people" --> proceeds to outline life changing punishments & little else.
Are we honestly still doing "war on drugs" style approaches to homelessness in the year of our Lord 2025?? Jesus.
Are we honestly still doing "war on drugs" style approaches to homelessness in the year of our Lord 2025?? Jesus.
#Breaking: Doug Ford to crack down on homeless encampments with new law and funding. Here's what's in the legislation
Doug Ford to crack down on homeless encampments with new law and funding. Here’s what’s in the legislation
The premier said the government will earmark an additional $75.5 million on shelters and ensure cities are spending the money to help those in need.
www.thestar.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:47 PM
"We don't want to punish people" --> proceeds to outline life changing punishments & little else.
Are we honestly still doing "war on drugs" style approaches to homelessness in the year of our Lord 2025?? Jesus.
Are we honestly still doing "war on drugs" style approaches to homelessness in the year of our Lord 2025?? Jesus.
Lovely to see tidbits of London Cares' House of Hope evaluation. Looking forward to the report.
⬇️ overdoses, ⬆️ quality of life & stabilization metrics. Shocking % of deaths though (a tableau of the long term effects of homelessness - treat, yes, but also: prevent!)
lfpress.com/news/local-n...
⬇️ overdoses, ⬆️ quality of life & stabilization metrics. Shocking % of deaths though (a tableau of the long term effects of homelessness - treat, yes, but also: prevent!)
lfpress.com/news/local-n...
One year in, signs of promise and progress at London's 'House of Hope'
"What we've seen is people, within three to six months, gain so much stability."
lfpress.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Lovely to see tidbits of London Cares' House of Hope evaluation. Looking forward to the report.
⬇️ overdoses, ⬆️ quality of life & stabilization metrics. Shocking % of deaths though (a tableau of the long term effects of homelessness - treat, yes, but also: prevent!)
lfpress.com/news/local-n...
⬇️ overdoses, ⬆️ quality of life & stabilization metrics. Shocking % of deaths though (a tableau of the long term effects of homelessness - treat, yes, but also: prevent!)
lfpress.com/news/local-n...
I'm all for using whatever's needed to support evidence based policy, but I get uneasy at times with these "but it affects you too" arguments (though I've used them too). It should be enough that people will die, and that these services are essential to recovery (survive until ready for treatment)
Opinion - Closing supervised drug-use sites won’t just affect those with addiction – it will hurt anyone who uses a hospital: Doug Ford’s decision to close nearly half of Ontario’s supervised consumption sites will lead to increased demands on our already overtaxed emergency rooms
Closing supervised drug-use sites won’t just affect those with addiction – it will hurt anyone who uses a hospital
Doug Ford’s decision to close nearly half of Ontario’s supervised consumption sites will lead to increased demands on our already overtaxed emergency rooms
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I'm all for using whatever's needed to support evidence based policy, but I get uneasy at times with these "but it affects you too" arguments (though I've used them too). It should be enough that people will die, and that these services are essential to recovery (survive until ready for treatment)
So many lazy stereotypes about homelessness that don't represent the realities of the majority living it.
And they drive policy - even with tons of evidence to the contrary!
"Evidence-based policy" is so 1990s. What the social media era needs is skilled storytelling to challenge those narratives
And they drive policy - even with tons of evidence to the contrary!
"Evidence-based policy" is so 1990s. What the social media era needs is skilled storytelling to challenge those narratives
People can be employed and still be homeless (in fact many are) We need to stop believing homelessness is caused by laziness or a lack of effort. It's a POLICY failure not a PEOPLE failure. #HousingFirst
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
So many lazy stereotypes about homelessness that don't represent the realities of the majority living it.
And they drive policy - even with tons of evidence to the contrary!
"Evidence-based policy" is so 1990s. What the social media era needs is skilled storytelling to challenge those narratives
And they drive policy - even with tons of evidence to the contrary!
"Evidence-based policy" is so 1990s. What the social media era needs is skilled storytelling to challenge those narratives