Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 05-030
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Policy and Research Division]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Summary of study which investigated interrelationship between health and housing. Lists challenges, traditional solution, potential present-day solution, and examples of how some communities have met the challenge.
Highlights from research report of same name.
Demographics provided include health, education, social conditions, housing, self-government of First Nations and Canadians living north of the 60th parallel.
The Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 20, no. 2, 2005, pp. 183-205
Description
Discusses how the Six Nations band members have accessed private property using these certificates avoid circumvent the seizure for debt restrictions in the Indian Act and acquire mortgages and own their own housing.
Compares on-reserve "registered population" and other Canadians in the areas of education, family, health, employment, income and housing. Based on Census data.
Identifies trends, reviews previous evaluation results, and looks at community housing plans, governance of First Nations programs, and housing authorities.
Follow-up to the The Farmington Report: A Conflict of Cultures. Reports an improvement in relationship between the city of Farmington, New Mexico, San Juan County and the Navajo people living on the Navajo Reservation.
Plan includes both short and long-term recommendations to alleviate problems with quantity and quality of housing and community infrastructure. Six elements: sustainable funding, institutional development, information and research capacity, financing, land management, and human resources.
FNQLHSSC [First Nation of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission] Research Department
Description
Topics included external environment, housing and infrastructure, nutrition, employment and economic development, education, justice and safety, health and social services, identity, and governance.
Argues that the First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF), athough it may help alleviate some housing concerns, is inadequate due to overly optimistic household financial assumptions.
Highlights the dysfunctional and atrocious living conditions on First Nations reserves, arguing that solutions must be locally driven and urban migration only creates different social issues.
Speech by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine to the Canadian Club in Ottawa about poverty, residential schools and how these issues are affecting the people today. 9 minutes.
Broad cultural overview of the Tlingit peoples including location, history, oral history, language, housing, clothing, healing practices, and social customs. Also includes brief bibliography.