U.S. National Green Bank Can Help Stretch Affordable Housing Dollars
So, what does a green bank do, anyway? According to the article linked below, green banks help make investments in climate change by facilitating loans to customers that banks...
Pardons Begin To Open Doors To Public Housing In The U.S.
A small, but significant piece of good news from the United States: a crack has opened in the zero-tolerance wall that continues to seal off public housing from those...
High Interest Rates Add To Financial Woes Of People With High Housing Costs
Businesses that charge more than 60% interest on money they lends to customers are committing a criminal offence in Canada. Sounds pretty high, doesn't it? It turns out that...
Garden Allotment Wars: Something Public Housing Needs To Support?
Potty: United Kingdom slang for someone who is a little bit daft. (Daft, in turn, is slang for someone who is somewhat potty) Its origins are not generally agreed...
A Proposal To Raise Incomes For Canada’s Poorest Adults
Some people may dread reaching the age of 65, but it's a good news day for others. Why good? People who receive social assistance in Canada can look forward...
Universal Basic Income — Cherry-Picked. A Contradiction In Terms?
Recently we featured a post on a Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment in Spain. We raised a question: why do Universal Basic Income plans seem to always be the...
Assessing The Potential Of Co-operatives To Expand The Supply Of Non-Market Housing
What is the potential for limited equity housing co-operatives to add to the supply of the non-market housing stock? The two kinds of housing co-operatives that get aired in...
Shelter Or Starvation? Tough Choice On An Empty Stomach
Middle class and up? You can afford to be wasteful. There's at least a little bit of money to burn.
Very low — even no — income? Every penny has...
Spanish Economic Dancers To Take A Whirl At Universal Basic Income
The Spanish region of Catalonia will soon be taking a kick at the Universal Basic Income (UBI) can. UBI is invariably of interest to idealists, not to mention individuals...
Boosting Tenants’ Safety And Stability
Have you ever been in the situation where someone told you with great authority that you had to do some particular thing? Whatever it was, you didn't want to...
You Know, I Think They Might Live On Our Floor . . .
When this writer moved to Toronto, he rented an apartment in a building with 150 units because he knew one person who lived there. When he moved out two...
Substance Use With Homeless Buddies: Better Than Housing First?
How to best rehabilitate people who are chronically homelessThe folks who sleep rough for lengthy and/or repeated periods of time are considered to be chronically homeless. into functioning citizens...
Government Planned Youth Starvation: Pardon Our Rant
Government-Planned Starvation of youth? Well, not technically, but let's detour on the subject via an oldster . . . me.
Really, it's three months since my last small Canada Pension...
After Suitable Caution, We’re Pumping Our Fists For Norwegian Heat Pumps
Are there reasons to be cheerful about heat pumps? That's the story from Norway. Being apartment renters all, the staff of affordablehousingaction.org's own cheeriness about heat pumps is entirely...
Post-Grenfell Fire Research – Effects Spread Throughout The Country
London's Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 was a tragedy not only for the residents, but also for a much larger portion of the population. An ongoing inquiry after the...
Financial Strain For U.S. Seniors Who Rent, As Well As A Possible Fix
Bailey Hu reports that older households in the US have experienced rising financial stress between October 2020 and September 2021. Being behind on housing payments is one way the...
Is Institutionalization The Best That Can Be Offered To The Disabled?
While people with disabilitiesWhen speaking about people with disabilities, one wants to give preference to wording used in the disability community. Is it "people with disabilities" or "the disabled?"...
Housing Safety Nets: Big? Small? Why Not Automatic Self-Adjusting?
Food, fuel, rent, mortgage payment, transportation, health care — a variety of solid financial necessities make up every household social safety net. For the upper middle classes and above,...
Post-Construction “Community Preference:” Right to Return Home? Or Racial Exclusion?
When it comes to American neighbourhood housing development, what does the term "community preference" mean?
It's a policy that might be required by some level of government, or put in...
England: Social Rent Housing Deserves A Better Rep
“Hey! Did you know that social tenants in England have lower mental health scores than private tenants and home owners?”
“That’s really not surprising. Considering the amount of hype around...
Elder Housing: Can Singapore Try For Something More Than Homage To Aging Frailty?
Singapore is a world-famous success at creating high quality, affordable public housing for all, not just the poor. Its principal focus from the beginning has centred around families, given...
Food Insecurity (e.g. Food Deserts) And What To Do About it
It has been estimated that 1.6 million residents in New York City are food insecure. They do not have convenient, reliable access to the nutrition they need for healthy...
Wrap-Around Support Program For Homeless Moms Gains Stable Housing
WoodGreen Community Services has scored another triumph in their award winning Homeward Bound program, with 36 new permanent rental housing units coming on stream in Toronto's Regent Park later...
Universal Income Part 2: Models and Forecasts
This is the second of three posts about Universal Basic Income. It reports on work by the Canadian Centre For Economic Analysis, which models the economic impacts of universal...
A Grand Canyon University Viewpoint On The Special Ed Needs of Poor Children
For American's students with physical and/or mental handicaps, their need, as well as their right, to forms of special educational support have been long established. Not so, unfortunately, for...
Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Remembering People Who Are Homeless
There is new memorial in Kitchener, Ontario. It's not for a statesman or a celebrity. It's to remember and honour people who experience homelessness. At the dedication ceremony, one...
Cozy Canada Missed 2008 Wake Up Call, Now Faces Housing Bubble Bath
2008 US/World Housing Crisis and beyond. What? Us Canucks Worry?
No need. We were proud of our doughty bank system that rode out the storm without risky mortgage investment holdings...
Resilience: What Is It? What’s It Got To Do With Affordable Housing?
Resilience is a measure of how well a crisis, calamity, or catastrophe can be withstood. As the term is used in this blog, it comes in two flavours.
Community resilience...
The Stubbornly High Number Of American Women In Jail: Is Eviction A Factor?
It seems that the lucrative harvest of quasi-felons that enriches the American jailing industry is growing disproportionately female. Further, the lack of affordable housing may play a significant role...
Decline Of Business Resilience Linked To Lack Of Truly Affordable Housing
Resilience is an important survival mechanism for individuals and families. Resilience usually implies not just enough to survive, but more than enough. When it comes to maintaining a roof...
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