homelessness | The Walrus

POPULAR →

Regional Bureaus

Federal Election

Public Education and Philanthropy

Photo shows two police officers in uniform, one of whom is holding a protester by the neck while another holds up a hand in defence

COVID-19 Showed Who Really Owns Public Spaces. It’s Not the Public

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 - by Anna Kramer

Are our cities meant for everyone?

Read More

Orange speech bubbles.

December 2022 / Letters

Letters to the Editor: December 2022

December 6, 2022 - by Readers

On a poet’s tarnished legacy, the housing crisis, and Quebec’s rebellious opposition leader

Read More

A hand holds a hat out, as if asking for change. Inside the hat is a small scene of a boarded up house, with people entering on the left. A figure on the right is telling a person to leave, who exist the house and walks down to a tent.

September/October 2022 / Society

No Place to Live

September 21, 2022March 10, 2023 - by Julia-Simone Rutgers

One person’s search for a place to call home shows a public housing system stretched to its limits

Read More

Photo of a group of people gathered in a circle around a fire put, after sundown.

March/April 2021

Scenes from Canada’s Housing Crisis

March 3, 2021June 14, 2021 - by Amber Bracken

As cities across the country failed their unhoused populations, one Indigenous-led camp in Edmonton offered support

Read More

Three people asleep in public spaces: on a park bench, in a garden, and on a curved bench.

December 2019 / Society

Solving Homelessness Starts With Access to a Safe Bed

November 12, 2019June 5, 2022 - by Sarah Schulman

Lack of sleep compounds the challenges of precarious housing

Read More

Photograph by Kenny Mcdonald

Uncategorized

Right to Camp

October 12, 2016June 22, 2021 - by Tessa Vikander

Vancouver’s tent city is more than just a political occupation

Read More

red cat looking at its own shadow

Health / January/February 2016

The Last House before the Bridge

December 22, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

What addicts need most

Read More

October 2003 / World

City of Lost Children

October 12, 2003April 29, 2020 - by Paul Webster

Tracking the disappearence of Moscow’s young homeless

Read More