Reports

Community voices: perceptions, priorities and needs to inform adaptation planning in Tuuktuuyaktuuq.
Morgen Bertheussen, Kearney Coupland, Deva-Lynn Pokiak, Laurianne Debanné, Mylène Riva, Lauren Traboulsee, Louise Mercer

Exploring health, well-being, and community support in cooperative housing models in Canada
Carolina Alday, Rebecca Schiff, Ashley Wilkinson

Northern Housing Ecosystem Report
At Home in the North

Northern Housing Ecosystem Report- Summary
At Home in the North

Journal Articles

Christensen, J., Goldhar, C., McCartney, S., Riva, M., Schiff, R., & Herskovits, J. (2025). Reframing Indigenous housing policy in northern Canada. International Journal of Housing Policy, 25(3), 529–539. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2024.2435093

Fu, P., Wilkinson, A., Mago, V., Schiff, R., Fisher, A., Frost, R., … Krysowaty, B. (2025). Community-driven approaches to homelessness enumeration: insights from the 2024 Point-in-Time (PiT) Count in Thunder Bay, Canada. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10530789.2025.2580048

Holtan, M. T., Bowen, E., Maisel, J., & Riva, M. (2024). Housing for care, connection, and health equity. Health & Place, 90, 103383.

Holtan MT, Clark SS, Conklin D, Rajkovich NB, et al. (2025). Extreme heat adaptation planning: A review of monitoring, evaluation and reporting. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Pugsley, A., Christensen, J., Tobac, A. (2025) “Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada, Political Geography, 118, 0962-6298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103278.

Books and Chapters

Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls. Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott (Author), Patsy Kowtak Kuksuk (Foreword)

Christensen, J., & Hall, R. (2025). 'Welfare Colonialism and Resource Colonialism in Northern Canada', in Daniel Béland, Rianne Mahon, and Alison Smith (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada (online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Mar. 2025 - ), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197766859.013.0037

Podcasts

Homelessness and Settler Colonialism in the Arctic North: A Discussion with Julia Christensen

In the News and Op-Eds

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (2024, January 14). Why some Canadians are betting big on 3D-printed housing in Canada. CBC News.

McCartney, S., Pugsley, A., Christensen, J., Riva, M., & Schiff, R. (2026, February 8). Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem - by the North, for the North. The Conversation.

McCartney, S., Pugsley, A., Christensen, J., Riva, M., & Schiff, R. (2026, February 8). Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem - by the North, for the North. Canadian Architect.