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At Home/Chez Soi Winnipeg Site: Later Implementation Evaluation Report
(2014-09-26)
This report is the second documenting the implementation of the Mental Health Commission of
Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project in Winnipeg, covering the late 2010 to late 2011 period. It reports
on the changes in program ...
City of God and Elite Squad: From Fatalistic Violence to Agency
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-09-19)
Brazilian favelas (slums)have become cityscapes of exclusion, with their precarious housing on unpaved pathways, overcrowded places stigmatized as shelter for the urban poor and for criminals. This paper analyzes how ...
Confronting the Illusion: Developing a Method to Identify Food Mirages and Food Deserts in Winnipeg
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-06)
This In-Brief develops a new method to identify both food deserts and food mirages to broaden the understanding of barriers individuals face in accessing food. We find that while food deserts exist in Winnipeg, food mirages ...
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 ...
The Lived Experience Circle: An Advisory Committee of the At Home/Chez Soi Project's Winnipeg Site
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-10-24)
The Lived Experience Circle (LEC) was formed in 2010
as an advisory group to the Winnipeg site of the At
Home/Chez Soi study. At Home/Chez Soi is a study on
homelessness and mental illness, and is the largest of its
kind ...
The Divided Prairie City: Income Inequality Among Winnipeg's Neighbourhoods, 1970-2010
(2015-05-20)
This book brings twelve experts on Winnipeg to talk about the people, places, and spaces, impacted by a growing gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods. We add a geographic perspective to the recent conversations about ...
Mixed-Income Housing Developments: Separating Myth from Reality
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-02-01)
Mixed-income housing has long been promoted as a panacea to the largely-failed social
housing experiments of the mid-twentieth century. However, more often than not, the social mix philosophy leads to more problems than ...
The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course
(2010-01-01)
This research project aims to design a course outline, syllabus, and reading package for a “Management of Cooperatives” course that will be offered at the University of Winnipeg (Faculty of Business and Economics) in the ...
Eat Where you Live
(2011-08-26)
Report on Proposal Development At the Winnipeg Site
(Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2010-09)
This document reports on the efforts of the Winnipeg Site in developing its proposal and coming
together as a Site. It is based on a series of interviews and focus groups utilizing a common
research protocol developed ...