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The housing needs of immigrants and refugees in Canada

29 Jun 2007

Specifically, the purpose of the study is: 1. to summarize the diverse challenges faced by new immigrants and refugees with respect to housing; 2. to identify the implications of such housing issues for successful settlement and integration; and 3. to identify the gaps between housing policy and programs and immigrant settlement policy and programs/services, as a foundation for roundtable discussi [...] Of particular importance to this research was the five volume series of CMHC reports written for the project The Housing Situation and Needs of Recent Immigrants in the Montréal , Toronto, and Vancouver CMAs (Hiebert, Mendez, and Wyly 2006; Murdie, Preston, Ghosh and Chevalier 2006; Preston, Murdie, and Murnaghan 2006; Rose, Germain, and Ferreira 2006). [...] In addition to the large-scale studies such as the Census and LSIC, much of our knowledge of the housing situation of newcomers to Canada is based on small-scale, city- and group-specific research. [...] In one of the few comparative studies of the housing experiences of newcomers in Canada, the Housing New Canadians study interviewed immigrants from Somalia, Poland, and Jamaica. [...] In view of the rising poverty rates and the high levels of core housing experienced by many immigrant households, however, homelessness is likely to increase in the absence of solutions to housing affordability problems.
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Authors

Wayland, Sarah Virginnia

Pages
54
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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