Canadian Housing "Policy" in Perspective

Why Monetary Policy Matters: A Canadian Perspective

This paper provides a non-technical introduction to monetary policy—what it is, how it works, and why it matters. It discusses inflation volatility and why this is damaging to the economy, as well as why increased stability of output growth is desirable. In both cases, changes in Canadian economic performance over the past few decades are examined. The paper also provides a detailed discussion ...

Queering Public Policy: A Canadian Perspective

Canadian experience in healthy housing

Canada’s efforts in healthy housing are based mainly in various low energy house programs. Since the early 1980s, Natural Resources Canada has launched two major programs to promote the construction of energy efficient or low energy houses (Mayo and Sinha 1996, Sinha 1996). The first one is the R-2000 program that was established in 1982. The performance target for R2000 houses was based on a 5...

Housing Policy in China

In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively increased per capita housing consumption. The housing market has become one of the major pillar industries ...

Housing policy, aging, and life course construction in a Canadian Inuit community.

The provisioning and administration of social housing has been a continuous problem in the Canadian North since the 1960s, when the Canadian government began taking an active role in the welfare of Inuit. Some of these problems are quite basic and include high costs for construction and maintenance of units. An examination of the development and evolution of Canadian housing policy in the North...