45 research outputs found

    Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada

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    Finding Home aims to fill a gap in the information available on homelessness by providing an easily accessible collection of the best Canadian research and policy analysis on homelessness.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad

    The origins of urban land use planning in Alberta, 1900-1945

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    Rethinking Canada's Housing Affordability Challenge

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    A Discussion Paper Prepared for the Government of Canada’s Canadian Housing Framework InitiativeThe inability of a country as wealthy as Canada to adequately house all its people is usually called a housing affordability problem. This vague term became common about thirty years ago, when it was no longer appropriate to talk about specific problems such as the postwar housing shortage or the slum problem or the inadequate mortgage lending system – since, for the most part, these problems had been addressed. There is, however, something unsatisfactory about policy analysts’ use of housing affordability as a problem definition. Policy experts seldom debate what it really means or ought to mean. Yet it is used in the media and everyday language as if it meant something specific. The term alludes to income levels and housing costs, so it seems to make sense. But policy experts ought to do better at naming the specific problem or group of problems – so as to better define solutions

    A Tale of Two Canadas Homeowners Getting Richer, Renters Getting Poorer

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    Rental Housing Trends in Toronto: Should Conversions of Rental Buildings to Condominiums be Prevented?

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    This is a Witness Statement and Report relating to the Ontario Municipal Board Hearing in the matter of the appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board regarding 17, 19, 21, 23 and 25 Lascelles Boulevard (St. Paul’s, Ward 22), Toronto City File No. 55CDM-00219 OMB File Number: S010050I, J. David Hulchanski, prepared this witness statement and report dated April 17, 2006, in consideration of the appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) regarding the rental housing properties at 17, 19, 21, 23 and 25 Lascelles Boulevard in the City of Toronto. This witness statement and report outlines my qualifications, the issues and matters I will cover in evidence before the OMB, and summarizes my opinions and conclusions as they relate to the appeal before the Board

    The Use of Housing Expenditure-to-Income Ratios: Origins, Evolution and Implications

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    This is a Research paper prepared for the Ontario Human Rights Commission in March of 1994.Assistance with the research for this paper was provided at the University of Toronto by: Joseph H. Michalski and Melanie Rock, Faculty of Social Work, Sheilagh Turkington, Faculty of Law, and Mari Wilson, Faculty of Library and Information Science
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