Housing policy, aging, and life course construction in a Canadian Inuit community
Abstract. The provisioning and administration of social housing has been a continuous problem in the Canadian North since the 1960s, when the Canadian government began taking an active role in the welfare of Inuit. Some of these problems are quite basic and include high costs for construction and ma...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1050.2763 2023-05-15T16:54:36+02:00 Housing policy, aging, and life course construction in a Canadian Inuit community Peter Collings The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2005 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1050.2763 http://users.clas.ufl.edu/pcollings/collings_website/Publications_files/Collings%202005%201229.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1050.2763 http://users.clas.ufl.edu/pcollings/collings_website/Publications_files/Collings%202005%201229.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://users.clas.ufl.edu/pcollings/collings_website/Publications_files/Collings%202005%201229.pdf text 2005 ftciteseerx 2020-04-05T00:27:44Z Abstract. The provisioning and administration of social housing has been a continuous problem in the Canadian North since the 1960s, when the Canadian government began taking an active role in the welfare of Inuit. Some of these problems are quite basic and include high costs for construction and maintenance of units. An examination of the development and evolution of Canadian housing policy in the North demonstrates that changes to the administration of social housing programs and, since the mid-1980s, development of formal privatization schemes have steadily shifted housing costs onto local residents. These shifting costs, however, are borne unequally, with Inuit born and raised in the context of permanent communities (the Settlement Generation) facing the greatest burdens. Text inuit Unknown |
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Abstract. The provisioning and administration of social housing has been a continuous problem in the Canadian North since the 1960s, when the Canadian government began taking an active role in the welfare of Inuit. Some of these problems are quite basic and include high costs for construction and maintenance of units. An examination of the development and evolution of Canadian housing policy in the North demonstrates that changes to the administration of social housing programs and, since the mid-1980s, development of formal privatization schemes have steadily shifted housing costs onto local residents. These shifting costs, however, are borne unequally, with Inuit born and raised in the context of permanent communities (the Settlement Generation) facing the greatest burdens. |
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