Video Library
This video library provides quick access to all the videos that have been included in the Built For Zero Canada Newsletter. Use these videos to educate your community about homelessness and inspire your community to end it.
Keep checking back here as we will be regularly adding new videos.
Below you will find videos under under a number of categories. With the exception of Famous Feature Length Films, all other videos are less than 10 minutes long and most are less than 3 minutes – great for showing as part of a presentation or meeting.
Built for Zero Canada
Real-Time Data & By-Name Lists
- CAEH Canadian Functional Zero and By-Name Lists (Chronic) (4 min – animated)
- Community Solutions Functional Zero & By-Name Lists (US Veterans) (4 min – animated)
- OrgCode By-Name List, Coordinated Access, and Priority Lists – What the Heck is the Difference? (3 min)
- Adelaide Zero Project By-Name Lists (2.5 min – animated)
- Using and Sharing Data to Improve Outcomes For Homeless Veterans (US) (10 min)
Community Solutions
- Beth Sandor Talks Birds and Baseballs (Homelessness as a Complex Social Challenge) (1.5 min)
- 100,000 Homes Campaign (4 min)
- 100,000 Homes Campaign Year 2 (3 min)
- We Can End Homelessness (4.5 min)
- What’s the Line Between Homelessness and Housing – Two Women Share Their Stories (3 min)
- What Is the Built for Zero Collaborative (3 min)
- What’s Your Why? (5 min) (intro from Iain DeJong & leaders share their why)
- Ending Veteran Homelessness – It’s Happening! (2 min)
- Gulf Coast First To End Veteran’s Homelessness (4 min)
- Veterans on Experiencing Homelessness (3.5 min)
- What It Takes To End Homelessness (3 min)
- How This Community Ended Homelessness (3 min) – Rockford, Illinois
Stories
- If Our Streets Could Speak (2 min) – Spoken Word from CAEH16 in London
- Rethink Homelessness – Cardboard Stories (1.5 min) – Orlando, set to music “Royals”
- York Region Videos:
- I Count – Glen’s Story (1 min) (single adult homelessness)
- I Count – Kaite’s Story (1 min) (family homelessness)
- I Count – Tristan’s Story (1 min) (youth homelessness)
- A Question of Care (Peterborough) – treating people with respect and making a connection:
- One Word (shelter and panhandling) (1 min)
- Too Bad, Not Today (receptionist) (1 min)
- You Stepped Up (1.5 min)
- Making the Connection (1 min)
- It Matters (1 min)
- Sesame Street on family and child homelessness – find videos, printables and more HERE. Examples:
- A Rainbow Kind of Day (3.5 mins)
- Connect the Dots (3.5 mins)
- Ribbons of Hope (2 min)
- PointSource Youth – Media and Visual Storytelling Library – over 12 short videos with youth stories from the US – includes racialized and LGBTQ+ focused stories.
Shelter
- Low-Barrier Housing-Focused Shelter Series (four 2 min videos – animated)
Housing First
- Pathways Housing First (13 different videos)
- Landlords Like That – (5 min – From At Home/Chez Soi)
RainCity Housing – Housing First
- Housing First Principles into Practice Overview (4 min)
- Principle #1 – Immediate Access to Housing with No Readiness Preconditions (10 min)
- Principle #2 – Consumer Choice and Self-Determination (8.5 min)
- Principle #3 – Recovery Orientation (10.5 min)
- Principle #4 – Individualized and Person-Driven Support (8.5 min)
- Principle #5 – Social and Community Integration (8 min)
- Also see the Workbook or the Facilitator’s Guide
FEANTSA Housing First
- What is Housing First (3.5 min)
- Core Principles of Housing First (8 min)
- Supporting People in Housing First – Part 1 (7 min)
- Supporting People in Housing First – Part 2 (10 min)
- Supporting People in Housing First – Part 3 (9 min)
- Team Working in Housing First (8 min)
- Community Working in Housing First (6.5 min)
- Delivering Housing – Part 1 (7 min)
- Delivering Housing – Part 2 (8.5 min)
- Evaluating Housing First (10.5 min)
- Why is Housing First Strategically Important (5.5 min)
- Scaling Up Housing First (8 min)
Other Housing First
- The Daily Show Investigates Where The Homeless Have Gone in Utah (5.5 min)
- Why Housing First? (2.5 min) – from the European End Street Homelessness Campaign
- Housing First in Amsterdam (7.5 min)
- Finland:
- Finland’s Housing First to End Homelessness (1 min)
- Finland and Housing First – World Economic Forum (1 min) – posted on Facebook
Registry Weeks and Ending Homelessness
- Chatham-Kent 2018 Registry Week (4 min)
- Fredericton’s 2016 Registry Week (7 min)
- Hamilton’s 2016 Registry Week (3.5 min)
- Waterloo’s 2014 Registry Week – Short Version (2.5 min) Long Version (5.5 min)
- What is a Connections Week? (2.5 min) – from the European End Street Homelessness Campaign
Other Homeless Related Videos
- Raising the Roof – Humans for Humans – Mean Tweets – Let’s Change the Conversation (1 min)
- Crisis:
- Everyone In: End Homelessness UK (1.5 min)
- If Everybody is In (1 min) – Crisis teamed up with a host of celebrities including Tom Hardy, Emma Thompson, Ellie Goulding, Jodie Whittaker and Richard Gere to call for an end to homelessness in Great Britain.
- Would You Rather… Pay the Rent of Feed the Kids? (2 min)
- Australia’s Everybody’s Home Campaign (2 min – animated)
- Toronto – What Does Ending Homelessness Mean to You (3 min)
- OrgCode – Do What You Say You Are Going to Do Rant (2.5 min)
- Hockey Helps the Homeless (3.5 min)
- LGBTQ2S Toolkit Introduction (3 min – animated) (Away Home Canada, 2015)
- The Intersection of Homelessness and Domestic Violence (3 min) (National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, 2017)
- A New Direction: A Framework for Homeless Prevention (1.5 min) (COH, 2017)
Famous Feature Length Films on Homelessness
- The Public – Trailer (2019) – starring Emilio Estevez and Alec Baldwin
- The Florida Project – Trailer (2017) – starring William Defoe
- Same Kind of Different As Me – Trailer (2017) – starring Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou
- The Lady in the Van – Trailer (2015) – starring Maggie Smith
- Time Out of Mind – Trailer (2015) – starring Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone
- The Soloist – Trailer (2009) – starring Robert Downie Jr. and Jaime Foxx
- The Pursuit of Happiness – Trailer (2006) – starring Will Smith
- Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story – Full TV Movie (2003)
- Monster – Trailer (2003) with Charlize Theron
- Where the Heart Is – Trailer (2000) with Natalie Portman, Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd
Other Helpful Videos
While not homeless-specific, these videos speak to key mindsets and strategies that are essential to support the transformational change necessary to end homelessness in your community.
- Collective Impact – Rowing (2 min – animated)
- Leadership Lessons – Dancing Guy (3 min)
- Growth Mindset (3 min – animated)
- Cat Herding (1 min) (a funny video that can be used to lighten the mood around change management)
- Never Give Up Race (3 min)
- Never Give Up Pig (3.5 min – animated) (a funny video illustrating never giving up)
- Famous Failures (4 min – animated) & Famous Failures Part 2 (4 min – animated)
- Start with “Why” (Simon Sinek) – Short Version (5 min) and Long Version (18 min)
- Equity and Equality (3 min – animated)
- How to Increase Your Grit (2.5 min – animated)
- Diffusion of Innovation: Part 1 – The Adoption Curve (3.5 min – animated) & Part 2 – The “S” Curve (3.5 min – animated)
- Brainstorming – Observe IDEO Experts in Action (2 min)
- How to Make Toast – TED Talk on Process Mapping with Ted Wujec (9 min)
- Leading Change (from Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard – by Chip and Dan Heath):
- Video Review for Switch (7 min – animated)
- Elephant, Rider and Path – A Tale of Behavior Change (2 min – animated)
- Finding Bright Spots (3.5 min)
- Why Change is So Hard (4 min)
- It’s the Situation – Not the Person (3.5 min)
- Shrink the Change with 1 Minute Praising’s (3 min)