A Place to Call Home: Housing Solutions for Low-Income Singles in Ontario: Report of the Ontario Task Force on Roomers, Boarders and Lodgers to the Honourable Alvin Curling, Minister of Housing
Description:
In a multi-volume commissioned report on intensification and conservation, published in 1983, gradual, small-scale change was emphasized, even though the need to "build a new city about the size of Oshawa to accommodate the singles looking for housing" was as urgent as ever. However, the Parkdale experience had shown that any attempt to house the homeless in a way that either depleted the gentrifiable housing stock or encroached on a middle-class residential neighbourhood would meet stiff opposition. The problem for the province was to make intensification sound politically acceptable by making it sound as non-threatening as possible; but incremental small-scale change was a hopelessly inadequate strategy to deal with the vast numbers of those who needed affordable housing.
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Type of Resource:
Book
Publication Date:
1986
Location:
Toronto