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

Hi everyone - this is our last weekly roundup of housing news and issues. This initiative takes a lot of time, and we think our efforts can be better placed elsewhere. If you want to receive ECOHH’s monthly organization updates, please join our mailing list. This blog space will continue to be used to share relevant housing and homelessness information related to ECOHH and our work. From ECOHH’s social media NiGiNan Housing Ventures Documentary is being presented at the Mutt

On April 17 ECOHH collaborated with the Affordable Housing Solutions Lab (AHSL), Bear Claw Beaver Hills House, 4B Harm Reduction (4BHR), Young Communist League (YCL), and the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights (C4JHR) to host an information and motivation session at the University of Alberta. Hundreds of Edmontonians become homeless and die on our streets every year. This is not a personal failure, but a systemic one. Our political leaders cater to corporate landlords and