Poor Housing
Subtitle: A Silent Crisis
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781552667910
Copyright date: 2015
First sentence: Across Canada there is a severe shortage of decent quality, affordable housing, especially rental housing, for low-income people.
Description: Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of affordable, decent-quality housing for people with low incomes, and the housing that is available to them is often appalling. The poor condition of housing for people living below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure and contributes to worsening health, adverse educational outcomes, and neighbourhoods that are prone to crime and violence. Using Winnipeg as an example, Poor Housing examines the real-life circumstances of low-income people who are forced to live in poor housing and the range of social and psychological issues they face: abusive, profit-hungry landlords, bedbugs, racism and discrimination to name but a few.This book also highlights the particular housing problems faced by Aboriginal people, newcomers, and individuals living in rooming houses.
The book argues the the private, for-profit housing market does not and cannot meet the housing needs of low-income Canadians, and therefore governments must intervene and provide subsidies. But all levels of government have shown a consistent unwillingness to invest in decent housing for low-income people. Ironically, the social costs of poor housing and the associated symptoms of complex poverty are greater than the costs of investing in subsidized social housing and related anti-poverty measures.
Finally, the authors describe a number of creative and successful housing strategies for low-income people in Winnipeg—Aboriginal housing co-ops, a revitalized 1960s-style public housing complex and an inner city church repurposed into supported social housing—that can serve as models for other cities
Table of contents: label: About the Authors
pagenum: ix; label: 1. Poor Housing Matters
title: Josh Brandon and Jim Silver
pagenum: 1; label: PART ONE: PROBLEMS WITH LOW-INCOME HOUSING
pagenum: 7; label: 2. Chronic! A Brief History of Low-Income Housing in Winnipeg
title: Jim Silver
pagenum: 8; label: To the End of the Second World War
pagenum: 8; label: The Early Post-Second World War Era
pagenum: 9; label: Winnipeg City Council Fails to Act
pagenum: 10; label: Slum Landlords Step in to Meet the Housing Demand
pagenum: 11; label: The Short Life of Public Housing
pagenum: 14; label: After Public Housing
pagenum: 15; label: The Ongoing Loss of Low-Income Rental Units
pagenum: 16; label: Who Lives in Poor Housing?
pagenum: 16; label: The Low-Income Housing Crisis Today
pagenum: 18; label: It's a Political Problem
pagenum: 21; label: 3. The More Things Change: Low-Income Housing in Winnipeg Today
title: Josh Brandon
pagenum: 27; label: Housing and Winnipeg's New Urban Poverty
pagenum: 29; label: A City in Flux
pagenum: 33; label: Winnipeg's Housing Universe
pagenum: 36; label: Affordable and Social Housing
pagenum: 39; label: Social Housing and Housing Alliances
pagenum: 42; label: Housing: From Commodification to Right
pagenum: 43; label: 4. Navigating Rental (Power) Relations: The "Tenant Landlord Cooperation" Program
title: Rachel Gotthilf and Darrell Stavem
pagenum: 47; label: The Tenant Landlord Cooperation Program
pagenum: 48; label: Residential Tendencies: The Branch and the Commission
pagenum: 49; label: TLC Clients
pagenum: 50; label: Landlords, Tenants, Power and Affordable Housing
pagenum: 60; label: 5. Biting Back: Addressing the Problem of Bed Bugs in Low-Income Housing
title: James Lyons and Elizabeth Comack
pagenum: 64; label: A History of Bed Bugs
pagenum: 65; label: Encountering Bed Bugs
pagenum: 66; label: Responding to the Contemporary Bed Bug Epidemic
pagenum: 68; label: Successes and Challenges
pagenum: 70; label: Self-Treating
pagenum: 71; label: Ground Zero: Rooming Houses
pagenum: 74; label: Continuing to Bite Back
pagenum: 76; label: PART TWO: PROBLEMS FACING PARTICULAR POPULATIONS OF LOW-INCOME TENANTS
pagenum: 81; label: 6. Moving to the City: Housing and Aboriginal Migration to Winnipeg
title: Josh Brandon and Evelyn Peters
pagenum: 82; label: Aboriginal Urbanization
pagenum: 83; label: Legacy of Colonialism
pagenum: 85; label: Poverty
pagenum: 86; label: Discrimination
pagenum: 87; label: Housing is Unaffordable
pagenum: 88; label: Unsuitable Housing Options
pagenum: 89; label: Lack of Skills and Experience in Urban Living
pagenum: 90; label: Aboriginal Youth
pagenum: 91; label: Aboriginal-Run Housing Services
pagenum: 92; label: 7. Winnipeg's Refugee Housing Crisis: Turning Organizational Knwoledge into Policy Solutions
title: Ray Silvers, Hani Al-Ubeady, Emily Halldorson and Jessica Praznik
pagenum: 96; label: Newcomers and Housing
pagenum: 98; label: Filling the Gap Between Shelter Allowance and Housing Costs
pagenum: 101; label: The Effects of Inadequate Housing
pagenum: 102; label: Social Housing and Refugees
pagenum: 108; label: 8. Rooming Houses to Rooming Houses
title: Jovan Lottis and Molly McCracken with Mary Burton, Isabel Jerez, and Art Ladd
pagenum: 112; label: From Rooming Homes to Rooming Houses
pagenum: 113; label: Rooming Houses Today
pagenum: 114; label: Stigma, Stereotypes and Rooming Houses
pagenum: 116; label: Rooming House Tenants
pagenum: 117; label: Social Support Services
pagenum: 118; label: Rooming House Outreach Project in West Broadway
pagenum: 119; label: Building Improvements
pagenum: 120; label: Social Improvements
pagenum: 121; label: Making Rooming Houses Respectable Again
pagenum: 121; label: Challenges Remaining
pagenum: 122; label: Expanding and Extending Rooming Houses
pagenum: 124; label: PART THREE: GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL HOUSING
pagenum: 127; label: 9. Privatizing a Social Need: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Low-Cost Housing
title: Ian Skelton
pagenum: 182; label: Privatization and Neoliberalization in Housing
pagenum: 128; label: Neoliberalism in the U.S. and U.K.
pagenum: 129; label: A Selective History of CMHC
pagenum: 131; label: CMHC in Winnipeg
pagenum: 137; label: Re-Constituting Social Housing
pagenum: 139; label: 10. A Terrific Loss: The End of Social Housing Operating Agreements
title: Sarah Cooper
pagenum: 143; label: Social Housing in Canada
pagenum: 144; label: Housing Need in Manitoba
pagenum: 146; label: Expiration Implications for Housing Providers
pagenum: 147; label: Social Housing Will Decline
pagenum: 150; label: Solutions
pagenum: 152; label: Notes
pagenum: 154; label: 11. Where There's a Will, There's a Way: The City and Low-Income Housing
title: Christina Maes Nino and Linda Ring
pagenum: 157; label: Winnipeg's History in Low-Income Housing
pagenum: 159; label: Rebuilding Neighbourhoods: One House at a Time
title: 161; label: Building Local Capacity: Introduction of Municipal Housing Policy
pagenum: 163; label: Recent Housing Policy Developments
pagenum: 164; label: Municipal Housing Tools
pagenum: 166; label: Fiscal Tools in Winnipeg
pagenum: 168; label: Regulatory Tools in Winnipeg
pagenum: 172; label: It's Only a Matter of Political Will
pagenum: 173; label: PART FOUR: SOCIAL HOUSING THAT WORKS
pagenum: 177; label: 12. Social Housing Is Good for Everyone: A Benefits/Costs Analysis
title: Musah Khalid
pagenum: 178; label: Housing, Education, health and Crime
pagenum: 180; label: Costs and Benefits of Social Housing
pagenum: 182; label: Benefit and Cost Estimates
pagenum: 183; label: Benefits
pagenum: 183; label: Costs of the Rental Subsidy
pagenum: 188; label: Fiscal Impact Warrants Supporting Social Housing
pagenum: 190; label: 13. In Search of Mino-Bimaadiziwin: Urban Aboriginal Housing Cooperatives in Canada
title: Tyler Craig and Blair Hamilton
pagenum: 195; label: Mino-Bimaadiziwin in Urban Aboriginal Communities
pagenum: 196; label: Social Housing in Context
pagenum: 196; label: Aboriginal Housing Cooperatives
pagenum: 197; label: Talking to Aboriginal Housing Co-ops
pagenum: 198; label: The Experiences of Aboriginal Housing Cooperatives
pagenum: 199; label: Cooperatives and Self-Determination
pagenum: 202; label: Re-Inventing the Housing Cooperative
pagenum: 203; label: Housing Co-ops and Mino-Bimaadiziwin
pagenum: 205; label: 14. A Good Place to Live: Transforming Public Housing in Lord Selkirk Park
title: Jim Silver, Janice Goodman, Cheyenne Henry and Carolyn Young
pagenum: 208; label: The Early Years (1960s to Early 1970s)
pagenum: 209; label: The Years of Decline: 1970s to 2005
pagenum: 210; label: Rebuilding From Within
pagenum: 212; label: Overcoming Distrust and Cynicism
pagenum: 213; label: An Asset-Based Approach
pagenum: 215; label: Political Work
pagenum: 216; label: Lord Selkirk Park Today
pagenum: 216; label: Community Development and Public Investment
pagenum: 218; label: 15. Leap of Faith: The Case of WestEnd Commons
title: Jessica Klassen
pagenum: 221; label: Social and Affordable Housing in Canada
pagenum: 222; label: St. Matthews Anglican Church
pagenum: 223; label: WestEnd Commons Is Born
pagenum: 226; label: Keys to Success and Sustainability: Community, Community, Community
pagenum: 227; label: There's Power in People
pagenum: 234; label: Faith and Investment
pagenum: 235; label: Index
pagenum: 238; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 242