Photo Credit - Paula Kirman For more photos of 2026 see Paula's Flickr album here On Thursday June 4th, 2026 at 12:00noon, ECOHH gathered with close to 200 Edmontonians at the Homeless Memorial Plaza (100 Street & 103A Ave), to honour, grieve, and remember the 349 family members, friends, & neighbours who died due to their experiences from homelessness in 2025. The Edmonton Homeless Memorial has been an annual service since 2006, excluding 2020 & 2021 due to the Covid-19 pand

A Community Service Hub Model for Edmonton's Homeless Community Implementing a Community Service Hub model, and funding permanent day spaces, "will save lives...increase access to broader systems of care, and fulfill basic rights that are fundamental to human dignity and wellbeing," is the message ECOHH Co-Chair Nazret Russon delivered to members of the Community and Public Services Committee on June 8. ECOHH strongly feels that implementing a Community Service Hub model is t

Photo credit Jesse Wiebe On Saturday, June 13th, ECOHH celebrated 40 years of advocacy and education with partners and friends at the Alberta Avenue Community Hall. We'll be sharing more information about the event in the future, but for now you can catch up with some news items on the event. CBC Television - https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7235827 Radio Canada - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5pK10_NHQE Global News - https://globalnews.ca/video/11904312/ecohh-celebr

Every year ECOHH hosts a Homeless Memorial service to honour the lives lost or shortened due to lack of permanent housing. This year's is on June 4, and you can find out more here. We know that the encampment clearing efforts of the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Services have driven hundreds of homeless Edmontonians away from the downtown core, and sometimes deprived them of shelter during the coldest periods of the year. ECOHH has shared information in numerous blogs

ECOHH is a member-driven coalition, and individual members are volunteers who care deeply about the homelessness crisis in Edmonton and want to see change. David Rivera-Kohr is a relatively new ECOHH member, who, in his own words, was "shocked" to see the extent of homelessness in our city when he moved here from the U.S. last year. He's been active in organizing a collaboration-building event on April 17 at the University of Alberta, and this week had an opinion piece publis