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Community Distress Towards a National Measure
(Policy Research and Coordination Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2008-01)
This report developed and tested a proposed Canadian Distress Index (CDI) model capable of exploring distress across and within Canadian cities. The proposed index is discussed in terms of its ability to inform policy ...
Student Housing Overview: Assessing Issues and Potential Options
(2005-09-01)
This report sets out for the administration
of the University of Winnipeg some of the
contexts, considerations and principles
necessary when undertaking any future
housing-oriented development. The report
provides ...
Winnipeg's Vanishing Rooming Houses: Change in the West Broadway and Spence Neighbourhoods
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-06-24)
Provincial and Territorial Interests in Land Use Planning and Development
(2002-11-01)
Land use planning in Canada is in the process of undergoing a radical shift as legislation, much of
which dates from the 1980s or even the 1970s, is less and less able to cope with the increasing
complexity of land use ...
Housing Distress in Winnipeg: Implications for Policy Programs and Services
(2008-01-01)
This is the Final Report of the research project “Structural Causes of Housing Distress in Winnipeg: Implications for Policy Programs and Services” undertaken by the Institute of Urban Studies on behalf of the National ...
Holding On!: Supporting Successful Tenancies for the Hard to House
(2014-10-27)
The following report assembles a preliminary examination of eviction prevention approaches used across Canada (also known as housing retention practices). The particular focus was to better understanding how persons ...
Housing in the East Interlake: A Regional Perspective
(2009-01-01)
In the fall of 2008, the Institute of Urban Studies was approached by Community
Futures East Interlake to complete a report concerning housing issues in the East
Interlake region. The purpose of the report was to examine ...
Living in the Red: Exploring Winnipeg's Debt-scape
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2015-04-02)
Canadian households are now deeper in debt than at any time since Statistics Canada began collecting
debtor data in 1961. Debt, payment delinquency, and bankruptcy are increasingly a part of the lives
of the young, the ...
Proceedings: Preventing Evictions and Managing Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-05-17)
On Nov.10 2011, the Institute of Urban Studies conducted a workshop on Managing for Successful Tenancies. The goal of this workshop was to develop an eviction prevention strategy for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's ...
Neighbourhoods Alive!: Community Outcomes Final Report
(2005-11-01)
The following evaluation of the Neighbourhoods Alive! strategy was undertaken in 2005. Neighbourhood outcomes—or present conditions in Neighbourhoods Alive!
neighbourhoods as expressed in both quantitative and qualitative ...