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Oct 24, 2024 · Public housing is the oldest and largest supplier of permanently affordable housing in the US, but it has often been left out of the conversation about a new “social housing” system in which public and nonprofit entities would develop, own, and manage housing for low-income Americans.
Mar 25, 2024 · The group has adopted a definition of “social housing” which points to a way of imagining housing outside the scope of the private market and unavailable for profit or speculation.
Mar 27, 2017 · Canada’s peak period for social housing was a generation ago. During the 2016 National Housing Strategy consultations, the strongest voices spoke about housing for low-income Canadians, a crunch that affects one in eight households.
Oct 3, 2024 · Canada had a strong housing welfare system in the 1960s and 1970s, but this changed in 1993 when the federal government stopped funding social housing programs.
Sep 19, 2024 · A New Vision for Social Housing in America. The most effective way to solve America’s severe housing affordability crisis is to undertake a bold federal program of social housing construction...
- Bianca Serbin
Aug 27, 2023 · In the early to mid-1990s, back-to-back governments of different political stripes — first the Conservative government under Brian Mulroney and then Jean Chretien's Liberals — began pulling...
The much larger stock of public-social housing in the EU countries is also a consequence of large scale re-building following WWII, and as such also extends to the UK, despite its characterization as a more liberal welfare regime.
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