Tye Anthony

Tye Anthony is an Indigenous scholar and PhD student in Sociology at the University of Guelph. His research examines Indigenous experiences and understandings of home, homelessness, housing precarity, and displacement, with particular attention to the ways state institutions, housing systems, and public policy shape experiences of belonging and exclusion.

His doctoral research explores how Indigenous people understand and sustain home under conditions of housing precarity, and how these experiences are shaped by gendered relations within state systems, communities, and households. More broadly, his work considers how homelessness becomes defined, administered, and governed through institutional systems, and how Indigenous theories of home, relationality, and belonging can challenge dominant understandings of homelessness.

Tye’s scholarship is informed by his academic research, professional work within the Indigenous Friendship Centre movement, and previous frontline experience supporting Indigenous tenants experiencing housing instability. His work seeks to connect sociological theory, Indigenous scholarship, policy, and lived realities while remaining grounded in relational and community-informed approaches to research.

My research focuses on Indigenous homelessness, housing, and the meaning of home and belonging. I am interested in how Indigenous experiences of housing precarity and displacement are shaped by public policy, state institutions, and broader settler colonial relations. This includes work on the governance and criminalization of homelessness, Indigenous–state relations, and the ways housing and social policy can produce or deepen forms of exclusion and displacement.

My work also considers how Indigenous understandings of home, belonging, relationality, and community can challenge dominant institutional definitions of homelessness. Methodologically, I am interested in Indigenous research methodologies, mixed-methods research, and Indigenous data sovereignty, with an emphasis on research that is relational, community-informed, and attentive to Indigenous knowledge.