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Urban Aboriginal households

12 Dec 2006

Under Part IX of the National Housing Act, the Government of Canada provides funds to CMHC to conduct research into the social, economic and technical aspects of housing and related fields, and to undertake the publishing and distribution of the results of this research. [...] The Aboriginal population First Nations people make up the largest in the PTR makes up 6.0% of the urban proportion of Aboriginal populations in both population, while the urban Aboriginal Whitehorse and Yellowknife while Iqaluit has a population in all of Canada makes up just 2.1% significant Inuit population, accounting for of the total population. [...] In addition, the higher the The difference between Aboriginal and household income, the lower the odds of being non-Aboriginal is consistent between CAs and in core housing need. [...] On a per capita basis, median employment income Aboriginal households in the PTR are in line for urban Aboriginal populations in Prairie CMAs with the rest of Canada as the average has not only increased over the past 20 years (from household income of an Aboriginal household $16,057 on average to over $17,362 between in the PTR ($48,374) is similar to the national 1981 to 2001), the gap has also [...] Across the PTR, the percentage of Aboriginal The proportion of non-Aboriginal households households in core housing need is at about living in CMAs and CAs and in core housing 25.0% while non-Aboriginal households, at close need is 10.0% and 9.3%, respectively.
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Authors

Kerwin, Tom

Pages
37
Published in
Canada

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