The newly created Slaight Family Housing Lab will pair MAP’s research on health equity and homelessness with the United Way’s role in funding community organizations that work with people surviving on Toronto’s streets, in encampments and beyond.

MAP director and scientist Dr. Stephen Hwang spoke with the Toronto Star about how the new funding will help create new front-line teams, including case managers, peer workers, social workers and other medical professionals. Those teams will go out onto the streets and work on connecting people outside with health care, social supports and eventually housing.