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Finding Our Way Home: Housing Options in Inner-City Winnipeg for People with Disabilities Who Are Dying
This project encompassed three pertinent social issues: the lack of safe, affordable, available and accessible inner city Winnipeg housing; the lack of supports available for people living in the core area experiencing end ...
Landing at Home: Insights on Immigration and Metropolitan Housing Markets from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada
This paper examines the housing conditions, needs and trajectories of recent new- comers to Canada, by focusing on the first few months of their adjustment process. Until now, most research in this field has been unable ...
Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg Manitoba , 1880-2005
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2008)
Explores neighbourhood change and experiences of home among the residents
of one city block in what has become
part of the inner-city of Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
The Residential Mobility of Newcomers to Canada: The First Months
This paper looks at a key aspect of new immigrants’ settlement experience— finding a home. Specifically, we examine the factors determining the propensity, over the first six months of settlement, to remain in or move on ...
WIRA Summer Institute: Internal Evaluation
This is an internal review of the June 2002 WIRA Summer Institute. The WIRA Summer Institute was designed with a number of objectives in mind. The intention was to create a unique, shared learning experience for university ...
Housing for Assisted Living in Inner-City Winnipeg: A Social Analysis of Housing Options for People with Disabilities
People with disabilities who have complex health and housing needs have limited housing options. Younger adults with disabilities, for example, are inappropriately placed in personal care homes with seniors when the cost ...
Wnnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance - Summer Institute, Course Assignment: "What Makes a Good Urban Neighbourhood?"
This is the outline for a course given as part of the 2004 WIRA Summer Institute. The assignment was to produce a 20-item annotated bibliography in APA format with introduction and conclusion on course-relevant readings.
A Profile of Income Assistance Recipients in Winnipeg’s Inner City
The objective of this study is to examine the experiences of welfare recipients with the welfare bureaucracy in the city of Winnipeg. For many inner city residents some form of income assistance is a vital part of their ...
National Consultation on Developing a Canadian Housing Framework
The success of a comprehensive national housing strategy depends on the ability to deliver a wide range of program initiatives under many different sets of circumstances. Models of delivery have to be results based, flexible ...
Beyond a Front Desk: The Residential Hotel as Home
This report is based on a comprehensive analysis of Winnipeg’s single room occupancy hotels. In developing and writing the report, an emphasis was placed on ensuring that the voices of SRO residents were heard and that ...