About Labs
IHARC Labs brings research, practical technology and revenue-generating services together to support IHARC’s homelessness and addictions mission.
Why Labs exists
Community work needs useful tools and resources to keep going. Labs creates room to explore how technology can help, and to develop services that contribute to sustaining IHARC.
That includes technology connected directly to community support, alongside commercial services with a practical purpose of their own.
Technology and earned revenue
Tools for IHARC’s work
STEVI is a concrete example: technology for support requests, referrals and follow-up. It gives our research interests in privacy, accessibility and service coordination a practical context.
Services that help sustain it
Hosting is one revenue-generating service offered by Labs. Customers choose it for their websites, while the service helps fund IHARC’s broader nonprofit mission.
Explore hostingOur relationship to IHARC
Labs is part of the Integrated Homelessness & Addictions Response Centre. IHARC is operated by BuildX Community Response Team, a registered nonprofit.
IHARC’s own website explains its community work, history and support pathways. Labs focuses on the technology and services that contribute to that mission.
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