Vincent Merola talks to us about Housing First and why it works. Heis the community development officer for Social Inclusion with the City of Moncton and he chairs the senior housing nonprofit, Downtown City Housing.

Vincent is a recent immigrant to Canada by way of San Francisco where he had worked for a nonprofit that specializes in housing first, before moving to Moncton. He’s proud to boast that just last month, he and his wife became Canadian citizens