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  1. The ABC of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1920
    Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
  2. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
    What Working People Need to Know

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
  3. Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    This report is the result of two concerns. On the one hand, it is a response to the perceived lack of information of the needs not being met by the current housing market in the lower mainland region of BC. Under current government programs, local voluntary organizations have a great deal of responsibility for developing, at the local level, special needs housing projects. The second main concern of the report is to examine the problems facing these voluntary organizations and the availability of resources at their disposal.
  4. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  5. Architecture for People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
  6. Artscape
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
  8. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  9. Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
    Resource Type: Book
  10. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors of BC - CAHPI(BC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  16. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  19. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  20. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  21. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  22. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  23. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  24. Canadian Institute of Planners
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. Canadian Wood-Frame House Construction
    Resource Type: Book
  26. Citizen Involvement in Housing and Community: An Action Research Design
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A proposal for funding a housing inventory network to deal with the housing crisis in Edmonton.
  27. Citizens for Public Justice
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  28. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  29. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
  30. The City in History
    Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
  31. Cohousing
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A type of intentional community composed of private homes with full kitchens, supplemented by extensive common facilities. A cohousing community is planned, owned and managed by the residents, groups of people who want more interaction with their neighbours.
  32. Cohousing and Sustainabliity
    Resource Type: Article
    How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
  33. Cohousing Characteristics
    Resource Type: Article
    The main characteristics of cohousing.
  34. Cohousing FAQs
    Resource Type: Article
    Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
  35. Communitas
    Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
    Visions of urban life.
  36. Community Dreams
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  37. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  38. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  39. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  40. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  41. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  42. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  43. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  44. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  45. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  46. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  47. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  48. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  49. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  50. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  51. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  52. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
  53. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  54. Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
  55. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  56. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  57. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  58. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  59. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  60. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  61. Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
  62. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
  63. The Dependent Generation
    Half Young European Adults Live with their Parents

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Almost half of Europe's young adults are living with their parents, new data suggests – a record level of dependency that has sobering social and demographic implications for the continent.
  64. A Dictionary for Housing Co-operatives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
  65. Emmanuel International Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    Emmanuel International Canada is one of seven affiliates of Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International. EICanada's programs aim to build the self-reliance and dignity of those involved in developing world.
    Emmanuel International Canada is currently operating in Brazil, Haiti, Malawi, the Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
  66. Family Service Toronto
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  67. Federation Metro Toronto Tenants' Associations
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  68. The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
  69. Fighting Back
    Urban Renewal in Trefann Court

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
  70. Financial Constraint and Assisted Housing Budgets
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A critical review of both federal and provincial capital investment in assisted housing programs.
  71. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  72. The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
    Bernanke's Double-Whammy

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
  73. Foreclosures and the Police State
    Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
  74. The Future of American Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  75. The Future of Public Housing
    Resource Type: Article
  76. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
  77. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  78. Growing Numbers and Dwindling Resources
    Resource Type: Book
    The world's population growth strains natural resources especially when consumption levels are high and technology is widely used.
  79. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  80. Home Sweet Home?
    The Impact of Poor Housing on Health

    Resource Type: Book
    The authors set out to research three topics: the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious diseases; how and if housing deprivation impacts on overall health and finally the link between housing and health in the context of the range of other possible influences on health.
  81. Houses and Homes
    Housing for Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
  82. Housing Co-operatives
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Continuing housing co-operatives emerged during the 1960s as an innovative way to meeting housing needs and foster community development.
  83. Housing guide
    Advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights, in a time when buying a property is beyond many people, council housing is being sold off, rents are rising and hundreds of thousands are homeless.
  84. Housing in St. John's
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
  85. Housing Rehabilitation Guides
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    A series of four booklets dealing with housing in Edmonton.
  86. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  87. How We Changed Toronto
    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
  88. Human Ecology
    Issues in the North

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  89. Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
  90. Issues & Actions
    March 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    A newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on the 1985 federal budget, International Women's Day, housing, and unemployment.
  91. Issues & Actions
    May 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    A newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on housing, hunger, 'Homes Before Domes.'
  92. Issues & Actions
    Summer 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    A Torono newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on Ethics and the Media, Homes Before Domes, Full Employment, plus a Toronto Social Justice Directory.
  93. Learning from Vienna
    Resource Type: Article
    The city housing program was the work of the Vienna social-democratic movement, based on the city's unions. At the end of World War I, Vienna had lost direct access to its markets in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because Austria now had to export to the world market, the Austrian unions faced a difficult task if they tried to raise wages to enable workers to afford high rents. Faced with becoming uncompetitive, Austrian employers would put up a stiff fight and some might go bankrupt. This led the social-democrats to develop a strategy for improving workers' standard of living by lowering rents.
  94. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
  95. Manitoba and Saskatchewan added to the Premiere Map
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Canada#s largest #extended-stay# provider creates a new franchise for the Prairies, opening suites in Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon
  96. Town of Markham
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  97. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
    Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874

    Resource Type: Book
    Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
  98. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
  99. Mud, Mud
    The Potential of Earth-based Materials for Third World Housing

    Resource Type: Book
    Mud is the most widely used building material in the world, yet it is almost invariably ignored by governments, development banks and aid agencies. In the Third World, virtually all houses are far below the most minimal standards of health and hygiene. Today, mud perhaps offers the only practical prospect for building the five hundred million houses which will be needed in the next twenty years.
  100. A New City Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
  101. No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    What can we do about the present housing crisis? This the slide show suggests that "Those of us who feel we have a right to decent, affordable housing will want to examine alternatives and look at new initiatives."
  102. Old Toronto Houses
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Photographs of old Toronto houses, with accompanying text.
  103. Ontario Real Estate Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  104. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
  105. Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
  106. Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
  107. Poor Housing
    A Silent Crisis

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure.
  108. Programs in Search of a Policy
    Low Income Housing in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  109. Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
  110. Racist housing? How postwar suburban development led to today's inner-city lead poisoning
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan is just the tip of a vast iceberg of lead contamination afflicting mainly urban black communities. A rigid 'race bar' on postwar suburban housing and mortgages left black families in inner cities, exposed to flaking lead paint in run down housing, leaded gasoline residues and lead pipework. Now is the time to correct this shocking historic injustice.
  111. Real Estate Council of Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  112. The Real World of City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
  113. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City

    Resource Type: Book
  114. Resistance After Foreclosure
    Against The Current vol. 158

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In 1973, in the class- and race-polarized city of Boston, City Life began as a socialist collective fighting against evictions and gentrification in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Over the years, it has evolved into a radical non-profit organization with a long history of doing tenant organizing and tenants’ rights work all across the city. City Life was able to avoid sectarian debates to maintain itself as a radical center for housing organizing.
  115. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  116. A Self-management Approach to Housing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
  117. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
  118. Socialist Register 2012
    Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2012
  119. Sources welcomes the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    We are the largest and oldest Tenant organization in Canada. Our mission is to improve the lives of residential tenants through organizing outreach, education and advocacy.
  120. Spokes on the Anti-Austerity Wheel: Building Movements That Can Move Beyond Reform
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    When it comes to fighting the crisis of austerity cuts and financial recession, we need to focus on how to build fighting communities rather than simply reacting to the attacks.
  121. Squatters are not home stealers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The criminalising of squatters in Britain is part of a Europe-wide backlash. But with at least 10% of the world population squatting, can they really be a menace to society?
  122. Squatting
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential.
  123. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
  124. Strategy of Development for the Canadian Housing Co-operative Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    An analysis of trends and outcomes of four strategies employed in developing co-operative housing.
  125. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
  126. Toronto Real Estate Board
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  127. Toronto's Poor
    A Rebellious History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2916
    Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
  128. The Trouble With Co-ops
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    The story of a pioneer co-operative housing project in downtown Toronto: Down Area Co-operative Homes, inc. (DACHI).
  129. Unequal Risks
    Accidents and Social Policy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  130. Urban core support network annual conference 1982:
    The disappearance of affordable housing for people on the margins

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    The 1982 Conference of the Urban Core Support Network, held in Toronto in October, focused on the disappearance of affordable housing.
  131. Urban & Housing Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to urban issues and housing in the Sources directory for the media.
  132. The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements
    With introductory comment by Bernard M. Daly

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Final text of the declaration, with comments on the parts the Canadian delegation opposed.
  133. The Vanier Institute of the Family
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    A valuable media source and expert resource, for almost 50 years, on families in Canada. Vanier provides access to research data and an extensive network of specialists on family issues/family life. All Vanier publications, projects and networks are inclusive, evidence-based, reflecting Canada's diversity. Ottawa based, non-profit, non-partisan charitable organization.
  134. What is Cohousing
    Resource Type: Article
  135. The Women's Survival Handbook
    for Metropolitan Toronto

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    This directory includes listings for services in: health, legal issues, financial matters, housing, career planning, and special needs.
  136. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
  137. YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.

Experts on Housing in the Sources Directory

  1. United Nations Human Rights Council
  2. World Bank


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