Latest Contributions
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Addressing Canada’s Lack of Affordable Housing
The 1990s may well have represented the peak of neoliberalism in Canada, and pressure had mounted on senior levels of government to cut spending, not increase it. The focus was...
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Shelters are Overcrowded: More housing is needed for homeless in Northwest Territories
By definition, a person needs housing to cease being homeless. And until the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) provides appropriate housing for those who need it, homelessness there won’t...
Latest Blog
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Should Welfare Recipients Try Harder to Find Work?
The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation just released a new report about “motivational interviewing” for welfare recipients. The link to the full report is here, and the link to the executive...
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Affordable Housing and Homelesness
Yesterday I gave a presentation to a church group in Ottawa on affordable housing and homelessness. My slides can be downloaded here. Points I raised in the presentation include the...
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Homelessness Policy
On October 18th, I gave a presentation on public policy responding to homelessness in Canada, with a focus on the past decade. I gave the presentation at this year’s annual...
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Housing Policy Under Harper
Today I gave a presentation on Canadian housing policy at the annual conference of the European Network for Housing Research. Points raised in the presentation include the following: – Fiscal...
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Poverty in Yukon
Last week I was in Whitehorse where I released a peer-reviewed policy report on poverty in Yukon. The report was part of the much larger Social Economy Research Network of...
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Housing in the Northwest Territories
Last week, I was in Yellowknife, where I released results of new research on affordable housing in the Northwest Territories (NWT). The research project was sponsored by the Social Economy...