by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 22, 2011
Rising inequality and polarization of employment earnings have been clearly documented in Canada and most other developed economies in the 1990s. Following a critical discussion of the use of the Cini coefficient as a measure of inequality in geography, the level of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jan 1, 2011
The housing conditions of low-income Americans, particularly those in or near poverty, have been documented in several government and private reports, as well as academic articles. These studies have either ignored or given scant attention to the differences in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 14, 2010
Reform of public housing in Australia has been prominent on the political agenda recently, most particularly through deliberations of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). In the parliamentary context a Senate Committee (Community Affairs Reference Committee)...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 10, 2010
An agreement to transfer the administration of social housing resources from the Government of Canada to the Province of Newfoundland, was signed today by Diane Marleau, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 7, 2010
This paper traces the evolution of reform ideology in the housing sphere in the first half of the twentieth century by critically analyzing the ideas and practices of a number of key housing reformers and agencies. Premised on middle-class beliefs in the necessity of...
