Public Housing
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Social housing is any rental housing that may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, usually with the aim of providing affordable housing. Social housing is generally rationed through some form of means-testing or through administrative measures of housing need. One can regard social housing as a potential remedy for housing inequality. Private housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities explores the historical functions of municipalities, their current ability to tackle major problems, and how to unlock the potential of cities to …
downloading unfunded responsibilities (like public housing in Ontario). Poor results are sometimes scapegoated …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …
each country, municipalities own and operate public housing and administer social services. In Britain …
VTPI: Victoria Transport Policy Institute · 12 September 2024 English
This analysis indicates that children tend to be healthier and more successful growing up in compact neighborhoods where residents frequently walk and bicycle, drive less at lower speeds, have affordable …
“Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children …
EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 11 September 2024 English
Affordable housing is primarily the responsibility of the provincial government, and municipal planners are restricted by the Municipal Government Act, but municipalities still have many tools they can and should …
1,000 households are waiting for a unit of public housing and we have much housing stock in need of major … council petition the province to build 1,200 public housing units in CBRM, increasing the low-income property …
Maytree · 10 September 2024 English
As the only publicly available resource that compiles and analyses this data, the annual Welfare in Canada report is the primary source for evaluating Canada’s progress on fulfilling the human …
receiving social assistance in Nunavut live in public housing, which is deeply subsidized by the territorial …
Maytree · 21 August 2024 English
We have separated the analysis for the provinces and the territories because there are significant differences in the cost of living and the nature of income security programs in the …
receive social assistance in Nunavut also live in public housing where rent and other housing costs are highly … amount (based on rental amounts in Nunavut public housing) did not change in 2023; however, the Utilities … Utilities Benefit amount (based on public housing electrical costs) increased due to new reporting by the … Iqaluit live in public housing, the example households are assumed to be living in public housing rather than … In Nunavut, social assistance recipients in public housing do not pay fuel, water, sewage, garbage, and/or …
CCHR: Canadian Centre for Housing Rights · 17 July 2024 English
From 2023-2024, the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) undertook a research project to deepen an understanding of the relationship between GBV and housing insecurity in Ontario, as well as …
supportive/transitional housing 13 Lack of social/public housing 38 Lack of affordable housing in the private …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English
An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …
local gamer activists, he’s demolishing a public housing project that our designers built with the usual …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 14 May 2024 English
No, right-of-centre policymakers don't own the school choice movement. Progressives have been supporting educational pluralism at least since the 1960s
state-aided medical care, food stamps, and public housing allow the dignity of choice.74 Introducing …
INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 13 May 2024 French
Cette publication présente un cadre conceptuel qui intègre l’ensemble des dimensions à considérer pour comprendre les liens entre les caractéristiques du logement et ce qui les influence, d’une part, et …
Environment"/ or Housing/ or Housing Instability/ or Public Housing/ or 1 (accommodation* or buildings or cohousing* …