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 about the dangers...

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 published in the...

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 dismantle public...