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Housing policies

10 Mar 2005

In Canada, the provincial conception of the shelter allowance, and the allocation of resources to it, seems to be largely unrelated to a detailed understanding of provincial housing systems and needs. [...] Recent Canadian debates now correctly point to the linked nature of the housing system and the need for a continuum of action, of different intensities, from the homeless to the middle market. [...] It is important to recognize that these points of view are near unique in the Treasuries of the modern world and the UK is well down the path to a better understanding of the role of housing in the economy (though there is some important distance left for both to travel). [...] New Times, New Foundations 9 However both the congestion and cohesion costs are likely to increase if recent shifts in the housing system, and especially the disconnect of poorer and median segments of the housing continuum, and the silting up of the rental housing sector continue. [...] The UK, as noted above, both in the Treasury and in housing lobbies, is further down the route to new understandings of these issues to underpin the re-adoption of housing policies.
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Authors

Maclennan, Duncan

Pages
22
Published in
Canada

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