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Jesse Jenkinson

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Postdoctoral Fellow, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto

A new Canada-wide survey shows 28 per cent of women-led households struggle with the affordability, suitability or adequacy of their housing. This is almost double the rate of households led by men. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

October 4, 2021

New data shows that homelessness is a women’s rights issue

Hannah Brais, McGill University; Alex Nelson, Western University; Jesse Jenkinson, University of Toronto, and Kaitlin J. Schwan, York University, Canada

Women, girls and gender-diverse people have unique experiences of housing and housing loss.

A woman prepares to pack her belongings during an eviction process at a homeless encampment in Toronto last June. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

September 22, 2021

The solution to homeless encampments is making them unnecessary, not illegal

Jesse Jenkinson, University of Toronto and Stephen Hwang, University of Toronto

As we push for a real solution — an increase in housing supply and related supports — the encampment evictions must stop. We need to make encampments unnecessary.

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