As part of the Alberta Government’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness, the Housing First Program provides access to permanent housing, intensive case management and wrap around supports to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Housing First is an alternative to the current system of emergency shelter/transitional housing and is premised on the belief that people who are homeless and at-risk are more responsive to intervention after they have a permanent place to live, than they are while living in temporary or transitional housing.