Resources
- Report
Alternative Federal Budget 2017: Housing and Neighbourhoods
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is urging the federal government to table a budget that makes good on its promises to reduce income inequality and drive inclusive growth....
- Report
Long Overdue: Why BC Needs a Poverty Reduction Plan
British Columbia is the only province or territory in Canada that stubbornly refuses to develop a poverty reduction plan. This is not because BC doesn’t have a poverty problem. In fact,...
- Report
Basic Income: Rethinking Social Policy
This compendium offers a wide range of considerations that any government or policy maker attempting to embed a basic income as an objective of their mandate ought to consider. The...
- Report
Ending Homelessness? A Critical Examination of Housing First in Canada and Winnipeg
A number of studies have examined the benefits of Housing First, arguing that it is more effective than traditional methods of addressing homelessness. This report looks at the challenges involved...
- Report Card
2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the House of Commons’ 1989 pledge to end child poverty by...