FAMILY, SUPPORT NETWORKS, PERMANENT HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, COMMUNITY INVESTMENT: FAMILIAR THEMES IN A LITERATURE

In Ontario, for instance, the shelter component of the RAP allowance for a couple with two children is $795 out of a total RAP income of $1439, but in the Toronto CMA the low-end-of-market rent for the 3-bedroom apartment that the family would need if their children were of different sexes and age ranges is $1300. [...] Providing the resources for stable archiving of research studies and evaluation reports by local organizations, governments and academics would mitigate the effects of staff turnover and generational change that challenge such memory-building.” They further point to the need for all entry categories of Syrian refugees to be tracked with regard to housing trajectories and the success of housing out. [...] In Chilliwack and Abbotsford, one of the nine (11%) Kosovars interviewed is unemployed, compared with eight of the eighteen (44%) participants in Vancouver and Surrey, and seven of the eight (87.5%) participants in Kelowna and Vernon. [...] A lack of factory jobs was mentioned in a number of interviews, suggesting a mismatch between the job skills of some of the refugees (for example, in manufacturing) and the types of jobs available (in service industries such as tourism, for example). [...] With the exception of a number of young, single women from Surrey who spoke of moving to Toronto and Ottawa to pursue education and careers, the majority of people in the centres in and around the Lower Mainland (including Chilliwack and Abbotsford) were content to stay in British Columbia, whether in the initial host city or by moving to the Lower Mainland.