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The housing situation and needs of recent immigrants in the Vancouver CMA

2 Nov 2006

THE HOUSING SITUATION AND NEEDS OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS IN THE VANCOUVER CMA Daniel Hiebert Pablo Mendez Elvin Wyly Department of Geography University of British Columbia 1984 West Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2 The Housing Situation and Needs of Recent Immigrants in the Vancouver CMA by Daniel Hiebert, Pablo Mendez, and Elvin Wyly (2006) is Volume 5 of a five volume series for the project [...] Drawing on a wealth of new information about the housing situation of immigrants, we examine four themes: the history of immigration in the Vancouver metropolitan area and recent trends in the Vancouver housing market; the housing conditions of immigrants currently living in the metropolitan area, focusing on the intersections between immigration, income, and ethno-cultural origin in the housing m [...] Of the major metropolitan areas, Vancouver received the smallest ratio of refugees, the group that typically faces the greatest challenges in the settlement and integration process. [...] The report begins with a review of the history of immigration in the Vancouver metropolitan area and recent trends in the Vancouver housing market. [...] As elsewhere in Canada, few immigrants arrived in the long, uncertain period between the onset of the First World War and the end of the Second.
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Authors

Hiebert, Daniel

Pages
106
Published in
Canada

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