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Friday, April 25, 2008

New Housing Reports

Several new housing reports are now available on the sidebar under the heading Housing, as well as below:

United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing,
Miloon Kothari
Mission to Canada
9– 22 October 2007


Disappearing Homes: The Loss of Affordable Housing in the DTES
(Carnegie community Action Project, April 2008)


Homelessness and Affordable Low Income Housing Backgrounder
(Downtown Eastside Community Land Use Principles Project, September 2007)


The State of Non-Market Housing in the Downtown Eastside
(Downtown Eastside Community Land Use Principles Project, September 2007)

 

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