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Aboriginal communities -include groups and individuals who came together to plan and apply for funding for projects with a focus on Aboriginal people under the NHI, and the Aboriginal people they represented who lived in SCPI communities. They may include First Nations organizations, status and non-status Indians, Métis and other Aboriginal individuals living in urban areas.

Absolute homelessness - refers to people living on the street or in temporary shelters.

Affordable housing - permanent housing that is affordable to low-income households. While affordable housing should form part of a community's continuum of supports plan, it cannot be funded through the SCPI.

Continuum of supports -includes all supports and services that would be needed to assist a homeless or at-risk person to become self-sufficient, where possible. The continuum includes prevention, emergency shelter, transitional housing and services, supportive housing and permanent housing.

Emergency shelters - communal shelter intended for tenures of a few nights up to six months, for people who have no other available accommodation.

Incrementality - for the purpose of this evaluation, federal funding is considered to be incremental if it adds to, rather than displaces, existing funding contributed by provincial and municipal governments to homelessness-related programs and services.

Leveraging - funding from non-federal sources is considered to be leveraged by federal funding if the federal investments caused other funding sources to contribute funding to homelessness-related programs that they would not have invested otherwise. The leveraging effect of NHI funds was not within the scope of the evaluation.

Supportive housing - public, private or non-profit housing with some form of support component, intended for people who cannot live independently in the community, where providers receive funding for support services. The tenure may be long-term.

Sustainability - the long-term viability of a project, organization or coalition. The evaluation examined the sustainability of community coalitions, but not that of projects.

Transitional housing -housing and services intended to facilitate self-reliance and self-sufficiency. This housing is intended for an individual's use for up to three years.

Urgent need - refers to projects undertaken before a community plan is in place. In order for a project to qualify as an 'urgent need,' a community would have to show that homeless people would suffer extreme hardship if the project did not begin immediately.