Supplemental Bibliography for SWK4422

Housing Policy
Homelessness
Indigenous People of Canada
Human Right to Adequate Housing; Housing Discrimination
Reports about Housing and Homelessness

1. Housing Policy

Canadian Social Economy Hub (2010) The Role of the Social Economy in Meeting Diverse Housing Needs. 4 pages.

CECODHAS Housing Europe (2011) Housing Europe Review 2012: The Nuts and Bolts of European Social Housing Systems, CECODHAS Housing Europe’s Observatory, Brussels.

Chisholm, E., Howden-Chapman, P., & Fougere, G. (2020) Tenants’ responses to substandard housing: Hidden and invisible power and the failure of rental housing regulation. Housing, Theory and Society, 37(2), 139-161.

Clayton, F. (2010) Government Subsidies to Homeowners versus Renters in Ontario and Canada, Toronto: Federation of Rental Housing Providers in Ontario.

Dalton, T. (2009) “Housing Policy Retrenchment: Australia and Canada Compared,” Urban Studies, January, 46: 63-91.

Forrest, R. (2008) “Globalization and the housing asset rich: Geographies, Demographies and Policy Convoys,” Global Social Policy, 8 (2), 167–187.

Gibb, K., Pawson, H., and Hulchanski, D. (2019) Private Renting. In D. MacLennan, K. Gibb, H. Pawson and D. Hulchanski, Shaping Futures: Changing the Housing Story. Final Report. Australia: Shaping Futures Project, 55-68.

Hulchanski, J.D. (2002) Housing Policy for Tomorrow’s Cities, Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks, Discussion Paper F27.

Hulchanski, J.D. (2005) Rethinking the Housing Affordability Challenge, Discussion paper, Government of Canada’s “Canadian Housing Framework Initiative” consultation process.

Maclennan, D. (2008) Housing for the Toronto Economy, Toronto: Cities Centre, University of Toronto, Research Paper 212.

Maclennan, D. (2010). What happened to the housing system? in Smith, S. J., & Searle, B. A. (Eds.). (2010). The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations, John Wiley & Sons, Chapter 9, 201-224.

Maclennan, D. (2012) Understanding housing markets: Real progress or stalled agendas, The Sage handbook of housing studies, 5-26.

Maclennan, D., Ong, R., & Wood, G. (2015. Making connections: housing, productivity and economic development, Melbourne: AHURI Final Report.

Maclennan, D., & Miao, J. (2017) Housing and Capital in the 21st Century, Housing, Theory and Society, 34(2), 127-145.

Maclennan, D., & Miao, J. (2017) Progressing the Housing and Capital Debate: Euthanasia for Rentiers, or Economists? Housing, Theory and Society, 34(2), 171-175.

Marcuse, Peter (1987) “The Other Side of Housing: Oppression and Liberation,” Chapter in B. Turner, J. Kemeny and L.J. Lundqvist, eds., Between State and Market: Housing in the Post-Industrial Era, Goteborg: Almqvist, pp. 232-266.

Marcuse, P. (2004) The Future of Housing Advocacy and Research, Toronto: UofT, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Research Bulletin #25. 6 pages.

Murie, A. (2012) “The Next Blueprint for Housing Policy in England,” Housing Studies, 27(7), 1031-1047.

OECD (2020) Housing Policies for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities: How National Governments Can Deliver Affordable Housing and Compact Urban Development, Paris: OECD Regional Development Working Papers. PDF

Orlebeke, C.J. (2000). The Evolution of [U.S.] Low‐Income Housing Policy, 1949 to 1999. Housing Policy Debate, 11(2), 489-520.

Pawson, H., Hulse, K., & Morris, A. (2017) Interpreting the rise of long-term private renting in a liberal welfare regime context, Housing Studies, 32(8), 1062-1084.

Pomeroy, S. and L. Evans (2008) Housing as a Mechanism in Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Brief Review of International Experience and Implications for Ontario, Toronto: Ontario Non Profit Housing Association.

Prince, Michael J. (1998) “Holes in the Safety Net, Leaks in the Roof: Changes in Canadian Welfare Policy and their Implications for Social Housing Programs,” Housing Policy Debate, 9(4), 825-848.

Suttor, Greg (2009) Rental Paths from Postwar to Present: Canada Compared, Toronto: Cities Centre, University of Toronto, Research Paper 218

Wetzstein, S. (2019) Assessing post-GFC housing affordability interventions: a qualitative exploration across five international cities, International Journal of Housing Policy, 1-33.

2. Homelessness

Adamo et al. (2016) Ending homelessness in Canada: A Study of 10-Year Plans in 4 Canadian Cities.

Buccieri, K., Oudshoorn, A., Frederick, T., Schiff, R., Abramovich, A., Gaetz, S., & Forchuk, C. (2019) Hospital discharge planning for Canadians experiencing homelessness, Housing, Care and Support.

Busch-Geertsema, V., Culhane, D., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2016) Developing a global framework for conceptualising and measuring homelessness, Habitat International, 55, 124-132.

Crowe, Cathy (2007) Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out, Toronto: Between the Lines.

Crowe, Cathy (2019) A Knapsack Full of Dreams: A Memoir of a Street Nurse, Friesen Press.

Doberstein, C., & Smith, A. (2019) Citizen support for spending to reduce homelessness in Canada’s largest urban centres, Housing Studies, 34(7), 1140-1162.

Dutton, D. J., & Jadidzadeh, A. (2019) The Incidence of Homelessness in Canada is a Population-Level Phenomenon: a Comparison of Toronto and Calgary Shelter Use over Time. Canadian Studies in Population, 46(2), 161-171.

Falvo, N. (2009) “Toronto’s Streets to Homes Program,” Chap. 1.5 Finding Home. www.homelesshub.ca/FindingHome

Gaetz, S. (2010) “The Struggle to End Homelessness in Canada: How we Created the Crisis, and How We Can End it,” The Open Health Services and Policy Journal, 2010, 3, 21-26.

Gaetz, S. (2018) Reflections from Canada: Can research contribute to better responses to youth homelessness? Cityscape, 20(3), 139-146.

Gaetz, S. (2020) Making the Prevention of Homelessness a Priority: The Role of Social Innovation, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 79(2), 353-381.

HSRDC (2012) The National Shelter Study: Emergency Shelter Use in Canada, 2005-2009.

Johnstone, M., Lee, E., & Connelly, J. (2017) Understanding the meta-discourse driving homeless policies and programs in Toronto, Canada: The neoliberal management of social service delivery. International Social Work, 60(6), 1443-1456.

Karabanow, J., Kidd, S., Frederick, T., & Hughes, J. (2018) Homeless youth and the search for stability, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. Book review: Hulchanski, J.D. (2019) Homeless Youth and the Search for Stability, by Jeff Karabanow et al., Canadian Social Work Review, 36(2), 165-167.

Kidd, S. A., Thistle, J., Beaulieu, T., O'Grady, B., & Gaetz, S. (2019) A national study of Indigenous youth homelessness in Canada,Public health, 176, 163-171.

Kidd, S. A., Vitopoulos, N., Frederick, T., Leon, S., Karabanow, J., & McKenzie, K. (2019) More than four walls and a roof needed: A complex tertiary prevention approach for recently homeless youth, American journal of orthopsychiatry, 89(2), 248.

Kouyoumdjian, F. G., Wang, R., Mejia-Lancheros, C., Owusu-Bempah, A., Nisenbaum, R., O’Campo, P., ... & Hwang, S. W. (2019) Interactions between Police and Persons Who Experience Homelessness and Mental Illness in Toronto, Canada: Findings from a Prospective Study, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 64(10), 718-725.

Layton, Jack (2008) Homelessness: How to End the National Crisis, Toronto: Penguin.

Oudshoorn, A. (2020) Homelessness as a Fusion Policy Problem. In Geographies of Behavioural Health, Crime, and Disorder (pp. 165-186). Springer.

Oudshoorn, A., Van Berkum, A., & Van Loon, C. (2018) A history of women’s homelessness: the making of a crisis, Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(1), 5-20.

Peressini, T. and L. McDonald (2000) “Urban Homelessness in Canada,” Chapter 23 of Canadian Cities in Transition, 2nd Edition, T. Bunting and P. Filion, eds., Oxford University Press, 525-543.

McDonald, L., Dergal, J. and Cleghorn, L. (2007) '”Living on the Margins' Homelessness among older adults in Toronto,” Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 49: 1, 19-46.

National Housing and Homelessness Network (Linda Mix) (2004) “Ending Homelessness: The One Percent Solution,” NHHN, Chapter 26, Finding Room.

Novac, Sylvia, Joe Hermer, E. Paradis, A. Kellen (2007) “A Revolving Door? Homeless People and the Justice System in Toronto,” CUCS Research Bulletin 36, University of Toronto.

Ontario (2015) Homelessness: Report of the Ontario Expert Advisory Committee, Government of Ontario. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=11038

Oudshoorn, A., Dej, E., Parsons, C., & Gaetz, S. (2020) Evolving an evidence‐based model for homelessness prevention, Health & Social Care in the Community.

Rosenthal, R. (2000) “Imaging Homelessness and Homeless People: Visions and Strategies Within the Movement(s),” Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000.

Scott, Susan (2007) All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women across Canada, Garamond Press.

Tipple, G., & Speak, S. (2005) Definitions of homelessness in developing countries, Habitat International, 29(2), 337-352.

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (1999) Death on the Streets of Canada: A Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Regarding Compliance with Article 6 of the ICCPR.

Toronto Mayor’s Homelessness Action Task Force (1999) Taking Responsibility for Homelessness: An Action Plan for Toronto.

Wallace, B., Pauly, B., Perkin, K., & Cross, G. (2019) Where’s the Housing? Housing and Income Outcomes of a Transitional Program to End Homelessness, Journal of Poverty, 23(2), 161-178.

Zaretzky, K., Flatau, P., Spicer, B., Conroy, E., & Burns, L. (2017) What drives the high health care costs of the homeless? Housing studies, 32(7), 931-947.

3. Indigenous People of Canada

Andrew, P. et al. (2016). Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. University of Manitoba Press.

Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996.

Katz, A.S., S. Zerger & S. W. Hwang (2016) “Housing First the conversation: Discourse, policy and the limits of the possible,” Critical Public Health.

National Council of Welfare (2007) First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children And Youth: Time To Act, Ottawa: The Council.

Switlo, Janice (2002) “Modern Day Colonialism – Canada's Continuing Attempts to Conquer Aboriginal Peoples,” International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 9(2), 2002, 103-141.

Wilson, Daniel & David MacDonald (2010) The Income Gap Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

4. Human Right to Adequate Housing; Housing Discrimination

Alston, Philip (2015) “Extreme inequality as the antithesis of human rights,” Open Democracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/philip-alston/extreme-inequality-as-antithesis-of-human-rights

Charter Challenge (2011) Homelessness as a Housing Rights Violation in Canada, Ontario Superior Court. The 15 page summary document that was the legal application to file a human rights violation challenge under provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms against the governments of Canada and Ontario.

COHRE (2006) Women and Housing Rights, Geneva: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions.

Dion, Kenneth L. (2001) “Immigrants’ Perceptions of Housing Discrimination in Toronto: The Housing New Canadians Project,” Journal of Social Issues, 57(3), 523-539.

Galster, George C. (1992) “Research on Discrimination in Housing and Mortgage Markets: Assessment and Future Directions,” Housing Policy Debate, 3(2), 639-683.

Marcuse, P. (2014) “Reading the right to the city,” City, 18(1), 4-9.

Martin, Paul (1990) “Adequate Shelter: A Fundamental Human Right,” Chapter 2 of the Report of the National Liberal Caucus Task Force on Housing, reprinted as Appendix E, Finding Room, 439-443.

Massey, David S. & N.A. Denton (1993) American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, Harvard U Press.

Murdie, Robert (2004) “Housing Affordability: Immigrant and Refugee Experiences, Chapter 8, Finding Room.

Ontario Human Rights Commission (2007) Human Rights and Rental Housing in Ontario: Background Paper. Toronto

Porter, B. (2004) “The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada,” Chapter 3, Finding Room.

United Nations, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1991) “Defining the Right to Adequate Housing,” in Finding Room, Appendix C, 417-424.

United Nations, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1998) “Canada’s Record on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Report,” in Finding Room, Appendix D, 427-438.

5. Reports About housing and homelessness in Canada

The following reports, from a variety of sources such as the UN, the Canadian Senate, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Canada’s corporate sector, and ‘think tanks,’ provide thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis and recommendations on housing and homelessness in Canada.

They serve as a helpful starting point for practical and applied thinking about Canada’s current housing issues and policy options.
They are great introductions to the issues and debates.
They indicate the breadth and depth of what we now know of about Canada’s housing and homelessness situation and the range of appropriate policy and program responses.
They demonstrate we have plenty of housing studies and recommendations.
Some will likely be helpful with the written assignments for this course.
Copies are available on the Internet.

United Nations & OECD about Canada

Concluding observations on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Canada, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, March 2016. http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CESCR/Shared%20Documents/CAN/E_C-12_CAN_CO_6_23228_E.pdf

Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Miloon Kothari, Mission to Canada (2007), Feb. 2009. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/10session/A.HRC.10.7.Add.3.pdf

Homelessness is a global human rights crisis: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, UN Human Rights Committee, December 2015. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G15/294/52/PDF/G1529452.pdf?OpenElement

Deconstructing Canada’s housing markets: Finance, affordability and urban sprawl, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1145, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jz0zbg20h34-en

Canadian Senate & National Organizations

In from the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness, Senate, Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Ottawa, December 2009. http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/402/citi/subsite-dec09/Report_Home-e.htm

In from the Margins, Part II: Reducing Barriers to Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion, Senate, Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Ottawa, June 2013. http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/411/SOCI/DPK/01jun13/home-e.htm

The National Shelter Study: Emergency Shelter Use in Canada, 2005-2009, HRSDC, 2012. http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/communities/homelessness/reports/shelter_study.shtml

Building from the Ground Up: Enhancing Affordable Housing in Canada, Conference Board of Canada, March 2010. http://www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=3530

Sustaining the Momentum: Recommendations for a National Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, January 2008. https://www.fcm.ca/Documents/reports/Sustaining_the_Momentum_Recommendations_for_a_National_Action_Plan_on_Housing_and_Homelessness_EN.pdf

Precarious Housing in Canada, Wellesley Institute, 2010. http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Precarious_Housing_In_Canada.pdf

Affordable Housing in Canada: In Search of a New Paradigm, Don Drummond, Chief Economist, et al., TD Bank Financial Group, June 2003. http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/curp/TDAffd.pdf

Ontario

Homelessness: Report of the Ontario Expert Advisory Committee, Government of Ontario, 2015. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=11038

Building Foundations, Building Futures: Ontario’s Long-term Affordable Housing Strategy, Government of Ontario, 2011. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=8590

Ontario’s Long-term Affordable Housing Strategy: Update, Government of Ontario, March 2016. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=13683

Ontario Housing Policy Statement, Government of Ontario, 2012. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=9262

In the Zone: Housing, Human Rights, Municipal Planning, Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2014. http://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/In%20the%20zone_housing_human%20rights%20and%20municipal%20planning_0.pdf

Waiting Lists Survey 2015: ONPHA’s Report on Waiting Lists Statistics for Ontario, Ontario Non-profit Housing Association, 2014. https://www.onpha.on.ca/onpha/web/Policyandresearch/Waiting_lists_2015/Content/PolicyAndResearch/Waiting_Lists_2015/2015_Waiting_Lists_Survey.aspx?hkey=64634a36-b6de-46b2-b76b-39541b2ea497

Where’s Home 2013: Looking back and looking forward at the need for affordable housing in Ontario, Ontario Non-profit Housing Association, 2013. https://www.onpha.on.ca/onpha/web/Policyandresearch/Other_research/Content/PolicyAndResearch/Other_research_list.aspx?hkey=0742ba26-d027-4c79-92a0-8f4d4606a33a

Affordable Housing in Ontario: Mobilizing Private Capital in an Era of Public Constraint, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), UofT, 2013. http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/imfg/uploads/238/1409affordablehousingproofr2.pdf

Toronto

Taking Responsibility for Homelessness: An Action Plan for Toronto, Toronto Mayor’s Homelessness Action Task Force. 1999.

Toronto Housing Charter: Opportunity for All (policy Statement, one page), City of Toronto, 2009. http://www1.toronto.ca/city_of_toronto/affordable_housing_office/files/pdf/housingcharter_may8.pdf

Housing Opportunities Toronto: An Affordable Housing Action Plan, 2010-2020, City of Toronto, 2009. http://www1.toronto.ca/city_of_toronto/affordable_housing_office/files/pdf/hot_actionplan.pdf

Housing Makes Economic Sense: Private Sector Housing Roundtable Report, City of Toronto, 2012. https://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Affordable%20Housing%20Office/Shared%20Content/pdf/private-sector.pdf

Affordable Homeownership in Toronto: Considerations for Discussion, Social Planning Toronto, 2013. http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/news/considering-affordable-homeownership-in-toronto/

Housing Opportunities Toronto: Progress Report 2014, City of Toronto, 2014. https://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Affordable%20Housing%20Office/Shared%20Content/pdf/HOT%20Progress%20Report%20web%20version.pdf

Taking Action on Housing. City of Toronto submission to the national housing strategy consultation of the federal government, 2016.