Work on Homelessness Quoted in a Senate Report
I was looking at the following report:
POVERTY, HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS: ISSUES AND OPTIONS
First Report of the Subcommittee on Cities of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
Released on June 8, 2008.
Chair
The Honourable Art Eggleton, P.C.
Acting Deputy Chair
The Honourable Wilbert Keon
and discovered that the work I did on developing risk of/and absolute homelessness indicators for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities are quoted on numerous occasions. You just never know where your work is going to wind up, I just need to remind myself of this when I think that what I am doing is useless and futile! But really, there are times, when I think that I just need to trust my gut feeling when taking on certain jobs, to just do them because they feel right no matter how the odds against recommendations are or how seemingly impossible change is on a topic or for a particular fellow group of humans. In fact sometimes I get the feeling, that just imagining un autre monde, or being a naive optimist is most of the work. Anyway, I feel a little less tired now! I also discovered the following announcements calling homelessness a national disaster also related to that work. When I hear some power shovels digging some foundations, then I will really know that the work was worth while!
via Ted at the SPNO who sent around the following Star Article: The Road to Reduce Poverty about the Senate Report.
