Mass homelessness emerged in Canada in the wake of neoliberal policies that reduced government production of housing and other supportive measures. Efforts to reduce homelessness have occurred in three stages: 1) an emergency response in the 1990s that consisted mostly of investment in shelters, soup kitchens, and day programs, 2) the implementation of community plans to end homelessness, combined with the adoption of Housing First as a strategy that seeks to provide reliable shelter as a first step to anyone without it, followed by other remedial services, and 3) the recent development in Canada of early intervention strategies to prevent homelessness from its inception. The second stage was highly successful in dealing with the situation of chronically homeless adults, and many communities have begun to see reductions in homelessness. However effective, this approach does not break the cycle by intercepting potentially homeless individuals in their youth, which is when it begins for many people. Canada is at the beginning stages of the move towards a stronger focus on prevention, aided by a social innovation agenda to identify, design, test, and evaluate preventive interventions to determine which ones will be most strategically effective, setting the stage for implementation and going to scale.

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将预防无家可归作为工作重点：社会创新的作用

在新自由主义政策减少政府住房生产和其他支持措施之后，加拿大出现了大规模的无家可归现象。减少无家可归的工作已分三个阶段进行：1）1990年代的紧急响应主要包括对住房，汤室和日间计划的投资； 2）实施旨在消除无家可归的社区计划，并采用住房首先是一项旨在为没有住房的人提供可靠住所的战略，其次是其他补救服务，其次是3）加拿大最近为防止无家可归而采取的早期干预策略。第二阶段在处理长期无家可归的成年人的情况方面非常成功，许多社区开始看到无家可归的现象有所减少。无论这种方法多么有效，它都不会通过拦截可能在年轻人中流浪的年轻人来打破这种循环，这是许多人开始的时候。在社会创新议程的确定，设计，测试和评估预防性干预措施，以确定哪些措施在战略上最有效之前，加拿大正处于更加侧重于预防的起步阶段。缩放。