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Rental Housing Dynamics & Lower-Income Neighbourhoods

Filtering, socio-tenure segregation, and rental residualization in Canada

Rental Housing Dynamics and Canada’s Lower-Income Neighbourhoods: Some Themes from Research Literature, by Greg Suttor

Housing Circumstances are Associated with Household Food Access Among Low-Income Urban Families

Household food insecurity is a pervasive problem in North America with serious health consequences. While affordable housing has been cited as a potential policy approach to improve food insecurity, the relationship between conventional notions of housing affordability and household food security is not well understood. Furthermore, the influence of housing subsidies, a key policy intervention aimed […]

Inadequate Housing & Risk of Homelessness Among Families in Toronto’s Aging Rental Buildings

Posted on April 20, 2016 by David Hulchanski

by Emily Paradis, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto Nine out of ten families in Toronto’s aging rental high-rises live in housing that does not meet basic standards of adequacy. The more problems a family has with its housing, the higher their risk of homelessness. Housing […]

Nowhere Else to Go: Inadequate Housing & Risk of Homelessness Among Families in Toronto’s Aging Rental Buildings

This report explores the continuum of inadequate housing, risk of homelessness, and visible homelessness among families in Toronto. Low-income families often move between different points on this continuum, and homelessness among families is more likely to be hidden than visible. Drawing upon a survey of families living in aging rental apartment buildings in Toronto’s low-income neighbourhoods, and on […]

The Financing and Economics of Affordable Housing Development: Incentives and disincentives to private-sector participation — Full 50-page Research Report

The development of multi-unit residential housing is a complex, costly, capital-intensive, and risky business, particularly for the major players: real estate developers, owners of rental buildings, and financers of development projects and long-term mortgages. All expect their financial returns to be commensurate with the risks they assume, and all need to cover their investment of time, money, and expertise. The purpose of this […]

Vancouver Update, 2016 Census

Neighbourhood trends updated to the 2016 Census, maps and charts, how inequality is segregating the region, changing municipalities.

NCRP Publications

2021 Benoit, A. & Townshend, I (2021). Income Polarization and Participation in Community Organizations in Calgary: Summary Report. Toronto: University of Toronto, NCRP Research Paper 246. 52 pages. Download PDF Pham, S. (2021). Applying Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing to Spatial Time-Series Analyses of Metropolitan Regions. Toronto: University of Toronto, NCRP Research Paper 245. 29 pages. Download PDF 2020 Grant, J., […]

Inequality, Polarization, Poverty

Explains the differences between income inequality, income polarization, and poverty, and describes how they are measured.

Toronto’s Aging Highrise Buildings

This report explores the continuum of inadequate housing, risk of homelessness, and visible homelessness among families in Toronto’s Inner suburb highrises.

Nine out of Ten Families at Risk of Homelessness in Toronto’s Aging Rental Highrise Buildings

All families in this study are housed. This study sets out to define and measure inadequate housing, hidden homelessness, and the risk of absolute homelessness in a low-income, housed population. This includes families on a continuum of housing vulnerability and homelessness, from inadequate and precarious housing, to hidden homelessness, to visible homelessness and shelter use, […]

Managing Neighborhood Change A Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Revitalization

U.S. National Housing Institute, 2008. This publication offers CDCs, local officials, and other stakeholders, including local institutional, business, and community leaders, a new way to look at how they can manage neighborhood change in order to bring about sustainable and equitable revitalization. It is based on a simple idea: The most powerful lever for […]

The Dynamics of Neighbourhood Change and Decline, 1983

Neighborhood policy is invariably based upon some “theory of the problem.” Plainly, if that theory is inaccurate or incomplete, as we think current theories are, it may lead to “solutions” that are unavailing or worse. Currently, public intervention to arrest neighborhood decline assumes that it is premature or unnecessary. However, if as some persons feel, neighborhood decline — like the decline […]

Ghettos in Canada’s cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas

Recent literature suggests a growing relationship between the clustering of certain visible minority groups in urban neighbourhoods and the spatial concentration of poverty in Canadian cities, raising the spectre of ghettoization. This paper examines whether urban ghettos along the U.S. model are forming in Canadian cities, using census data for 1991 and 2001 and borrowing […]

Tower Neighbourhood Renewal

Tower Neighbourhood Renewal in the Greater Golden Horseshoe: An Analysis of High-Rise Apartment Tower Neighbourhoods Developed in the Post-War Boom (1945-1984) by E.R.A. Architects, planningAlliance, and the Cities Centre, University of Toronto For the Ontario Growth Secretariat, Ministry of Infrastructure, Government of Ontario. November 2010 In 2010 a major study of rental apartment buildings over eight storeys constructed between 1945 and 1984 […]