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Publication Date: 2007
The main objective of this study was to conduct an in-depth case review of Fairway Woods, a 32-apartment housing project providing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, support services for formerly homeless and hard-to-house seniors. This report describes the location, site and building of the housing project as well as the tenant profile and range of services provided. It also highlights the project's main success factors and the impact of Fairway Woo...
Publication Date: 2006
"Not In My Back Yard" (NIMBY) is a phenomenon by which residents of a community adopt protectionist attitudes and oppositional tactics to prevent an unwelcome project from developing in their neighbourhood. To investigate this issue, 46 case studies were developed for a variety of projects across Canada, including, amongst others, homeless shelters, supported housing, and transitional and long-term affordable housing. By revealing specific NIMBY...
Publication Date: 2005
This study examines how social housing providers accommodate homeless applicants and explores ways in which access to housing could be improved for homeless people. Interviews were conducted with a diverse set of twenty social housing providers from four provinces, serving a range of target populations. Numerous systemic, organizational and individual barriers which homeless people face when accessing social housing are identified and explained....
Publication Date: 2010
The Government of Canada and community partners celebrated the official opening of a 29-bed affordable housing project today. The completed rooming house will provide affordable, supportive housing for individuals living with special needs in Toronto.
Publication Date: 2009
Presentation to the Full Committee of the National Housing Research Committee.
Publication Date: 2005
Research into Aboriginal use of temporary housing included a literature review, interviews with Aboriginal people who had used temporary housing and interviews with staff from 12 organizations which offer temporary housing services. The research was conducted with organizations and individuals in the northern Ontario communities of Kenora, Fort Frances, Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay. Hostels, motels and emergency shelters were all defined as type...
Publication Date: 2002
The study of women living alone in a rural area was conducted in the region of Boundary located in the West Kootenay area. One in 12 households in this area is comprised of a single woman. Fifty women were interviewed via convenience sampling and 80 per cent of the respondents 50 years of age or greater. Two thirds of these women had housing affordability issues as they spent more than 30 per cent of their income on shelter. Half spent more than...
Publication Date: 2006
In 2003, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC and the Housing and Homelessness Branch of Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), formed a partnership to create and pilot a workshop in Ontario called Strategies for Gaining Community Acceptance for affordable housing projects and homeless shelters. Following the successful pilot, workshops have been held both within and outside of Ontario (for example Halifax and Vancouver)....
Publication Date: 2003
This research, conducted in 2002 and 2003 for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) by Luba Serge, a housing consultant, and Nancy Gnaedinger, a gerontology consultant, looked at: - why some elderly and chronically ill people are lving in homeless shelters - the barriers to other, more suitable housing options - some initiatives that have been undertaken to address the needs of this population
Publication Date: 1999
Municipal governments in the United States are using various regulatory initiatives associated with their development approval powers to encourage, enable, or require for-profit developers and builders to provide affordable housing. The most common of these regulatory initiatives falls into three categories: inclusionary zoning, exaction programs, including linkage fees, among others, and density bonusing. These initiatives are used both on othe...
Publication Date: 2000
The shortage of affordable housing is a pressing issue in Canada today. The need for affordable housing is growing, is not clearly understood, and has not received the same level of media and attention by the public at large as the related issue of homelessness. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has already taken positive first steps to help sponsors of affordable housing through the establishment of CMHC’s Partnership Centre which...
Publication Date: 1996
As societies became urbanized and industrialized, young people left the parental home when the time came to marry or establish a family. In the 1960s and 1970s when the economy was growing and values changing rapidly, young people generally left their parents to live alone or to share accommodation.This behavior, which both reflected and stimulated increased construction of apartments, took on increasing importance as a dimension, or even symbol,...