Category Archives: Housing

Current government responses, and their inadequacies

Posted on February 23, 2002 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(February 23, 2002) I’ll talk on three issues: how the housing problem got here; government programs to serve the homeless; government programs to resolve the problems. Then will make a few concluding remarks. Continue reading →

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Nasty neighbours and the rise of housing tyrants

Posted on January 2, 2001 by Other News Sources

(January 2, 2001) Neighbours don’t get along. They fight over parking spaces, they fight over the way their yards are kept, they fight over new additions to their houses and they fight over the rowdy late-night parties their teenagers hold. Continue reading →

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Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing E-7

Posted on November 16, 1999 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(November 16, 1999) Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Standing Committee on Estimates. Continue reading →

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What would happen if we counted housework in the GDP?

Posted on June 21, 1999 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(June 21, 1999) The Next City asked Finn Poschmann, a policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Finn Poschmann, chair of research and policy development, to comment. Continue reading →

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Homelessness – Speech

Posted on December 3, 1998 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(December 3, 1998) We hear a lot these days about homelessness being national disaster. What we don’t hear is that homelessness is a new phenomenon, the term was not even in common parlance until the 1980s. Continue reading →

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