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Adequate & affordable housing for all: Research, policy, practice
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski, Robert A. Murdie, Philippa Campsie
Publication Date: 2004
In June 2004 about three hundred housing researchers from forty countries gathered in Toronto for a four-day conference on the theme of adequate and affordable housing for all. The Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, together with faculty and graduate students from Torontoarea universities and staff from local government housing agencies, hosted the conference under the auspices of the International Sociological Associa...
Housing Policy for Tomorrow’s Cities
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski
Publication Date: 2002
Decent housing is important both to individual households and to economic growth. It impacts on individuals’ disposable income, their ability to access employment, their health, and their inclusion in society. This is why the Government is committed to ensuring that everyone should have the opportunity of a decent home and is setting itself targets to improve the condition of both the social and private sector housing stock, and to achieve a mo...
What factors shape Canadian housing policy? The intergovernmental role in Canada’s housing system
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski
Publication Date: 2006
This paper provides a brief overview of the nature of Canadian housing policy and the role played by government. It is not about Canada’s current housing problems. Rather, it outlines an improved conceptual framework for thinking about Canada’s housing problems and offers an explanation for the policy role played by the different levels of government.
Rethinking Canada’s Housing Affordability Challenge
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski
Publication Date: 2005
Canada is able to build safe and adequate housing appropriate to the needs of all its households. That is, there are no physical, institutional, or financial impediments, no shortage of building supplies, construction workers, or mortgage financing to supply adequate housing for all. After the Second World War, improvements in housing finance, residential land servicing and building techniques, materials, and regulations produced high-quality ho...
Homelessness in Canada: Past, Present & Future
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski
Organization: University of Calgary
Publication Date: 2009
Calgary Growing Home conference keynote address.
4.2 Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, Canadian-Born Families
Author(s): Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, J. David Hulchanski
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2009
This year-long study compared the experiences of three kinds of homeless families who, at the beginning of the study, were living in a family shelter in Toronto: Canadian-born families, immigrant families with permanent resident status, and families headed by migrant women without permanent status. Although most families found housing within the year, not all were better off housed than they had been before becoming homeless or during their time...
1.3 One in Five…Housing as a Factor in the Admission of Children to Care
Author(s): Shirley Chau, Ann Fitzpatrick, J. David Hulchanski, Bruce Leslie, Debbie Schatia
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2009
In a survey of the reasons why Children’s Aid Society of Toronto workers decide when a child should be removed from his or her family and placed in care, researchers found that in 20% of cases, the family’s housing situation was a factor in the decision. Also, housing problems delayed the return of the child to his or her family in 11.5% of cases. The authors conclude that Toronto’s housing situation negatively affects the well-being of many fami...
Solutions to Homelessness: Vancouver Case Studies
Author(s): J. David Hulchanski, Margaret Eberle, Kris Olds, Dana Stewart
Publication Date: 1991
This study seeks to build upon and extend our knowledge about innovative ways of assisting the homeless by identifying important locally derived solutions that may be replaceable on a broader scale and to document those features that pose problems for the sponsor or the tenants. It presents profiles of six projects developed and managed by three community-based organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia. The report is intended to serve two...
Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness & Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, & Canadian-Born Families
Author(s): Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, J. David Hulchanski
Organization: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
Publication Date: 2008
One significant segment of Canada’s unhoused population is families with children. Within this group are many immigrant and refugee families. Homelessness and shelter life impose great stress on mothers and their children. For immigrants who are also undergoing the stress of adapting to a new environment and a new culture, which may include learning English, the stress is compounded. A better understanding of the way in which discrimination contr...
Housing Issues Facing Immigrants and Refugees in Greater Toronto: Initial Findings From Jamaican, Polish and Somali Communities
Author(s): Robert A. Murdie, Adrienne S. Chambon, J. David Hulchanski, Carlos Teixeira
Publication Date: 1995
Toronto is the primary reception area for Canada’s immigrants and refugees. Since the early 1970s approximately one-third of immigrants and refugees coming to Canada each year have settled in the Toronto area, which has only about thirteen percent of Canada’s population. The number of immigrants entering Canada, and settling initially in the Toronto area, increased dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For Toronto, the numbers fluctuat...