Kathryn Ryan talks to Dr Sam Tsemberis who is the founder of Pathways to Housing in New York City and designer of the Housing First model. He's been working alongside Auckland council and others on a two year pilot, which started last month, with the ambitious goal to...

It’s 8.30am at a cafe in central Auckland, and one of the city’s street people wanders in. He glances around, clocks the only other people in the place (us), then wanders out and away. Sam Tsemberis has his back to the door so doesn’t notice. What our fleeting visitor...

The number of people sleeping rough in Auckland’s city centre has more than doubled from 68 in 2013 to 177 in 2016. And this isn’t a problem confined to the city centre – it’s a significant issue across the Auckland region. New Zealanders pride ourselves on being carin...

MEDICINE HAT, Alberta - Kurt Remple, a toothless, unemployed, struggling alcoholic in Medicine Hat, the curiously named prairie town in Alberta, is a success story of sorts. Five years ago, he was living under a bridge and surviving on free meals from charities....

The process of innovation is often one of mystery. Where does an idea come from? How do innovators find it? What makes them different from everyone else fumbling around in the dark?

Compounding the puzzle is the irony that those most likely to innovate are rarely the ex...

IT'S EARLY DECEMBER, 10:30 in the morning, and Rene Zepeda is driving a Volunteers of America minivan around Salt Lake City, looking for reclusive homeless people, those camping out next to the railroad tracks or down by the river or up in the foothills. The winter has...

250 miles south of the Arctic Circle, Yellowknife isn’t just a place, it’s an experience. It is a city of about 20,000 with many small surrounding rural and remote communities, some of which can only be reached by plane. Dayle, our gracious host, showed us the sights i...