If public substance use and discarded needles are among the behaviours our communities most urgently want addressed, what practical, evidence-informed alternatives are we prepared to provide?

We talk a lot about homelessness once we can see it. We talk less about the moments before it happens.

Imagine your worst, most vulnerable moment becoming somebody else's Facebook content. Here at the Portal, we have been thinking a lot lately about how people are talked about in our community. We are increasingly concerned by the public humiliation and dehumanization of people who are already extraordinarily vulnerable… including photographs of people sleeping or using public spaces being taken and shared publicly as evidence of a "problem." People experiencing homelessness a