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  1. Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
  2. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  3. Architecture for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
  4. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  5. Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework’s insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
  6. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
  7. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  8. Canadian Cohousing Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for the cohousing movement which seeks to create and maintain neighbourhoods which emphasize a supportive, inter-generational community, common facilities and participation by all members using a consensus process to make decisions.
  9. Citizen Involvement in Housing and Community: An Action Research Design
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A proposal for funding a housing inventory network to deal with the housing crisis in Edmonton.
  10. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  11. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  12. City of Toronto Non-Profit Housing Corporation (CityHome)
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  13. Cohousing
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  14. Cohousing and Sustainabliity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
  15. Cohousing Characteristics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The main characteristics of cohousing.
  16. Cohousing FAQs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
  17. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  18. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  19. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  20. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
  21. Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  22. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   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.
  23. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  24. Directory of Housing Co-operatives and Resource Groups
    Periodical profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  25. Downtown Crisis Housing Foundation
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
  26. Downtown Crisis Housing Foundation
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  27. Edmonton Inner City Housing Society
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
  28. Fighting Back
    Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  29. Financial Constraint and Assisted Housing Budgets
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    A critical review of both Federal and Provincial Capital Investment in Assisted Housing Programs.
  30. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  31. The Future of Public Housing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  32. 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
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
  33. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  34. Housing Co-operatives
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Continuing housing co-operatives emerged during the 1960s as an innovative way to meeting housing needs and foster community development.
  35. Housing for People Coalition
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  36. Housing in Ottawa-Carleton: A Woman's Issue
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
  37. Housing in St. John's
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
  38. The Housing Question
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1872
    Only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible.
  39. Housing Rehabilitation Guides
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A series of four booklets dealing with housing in Edmonton.
  40. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  41. Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
  42. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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).
  43. No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1982
  44. Non Profit Co-operative Housing Federation of Nova Scotia
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  45. The Real World of City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  46. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
    Resource Type: Book
  47. The Right to Housing - A Human Right
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  48. The Right to Housing - A Human Right
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
  49. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  50. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  51. Social Determinants of Health
    Canadian Perspectives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
  52. Social Housing Association of Cape Breton
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  53. Squatter Town: The South's urban explosion
    New Internationalist January/February 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at squatter communities and the social injustices they face.
  54. Squatting
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential.
  55. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  56. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  57. Take Back the Land
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away.
  58. The Trouble With Co-ops.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  59. Wanted: A Roof for Canada's Poor.
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1980
  60. What is Cohousing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  61. Winnipeg Housing Concerns Group Inc
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  62. Your Housing Options
    Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
    First Published: 1982

Experts on Housing in the Sources Directory

  1. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
  2. Canadian Institute of Planners
  3. Citizens for Public Justice
  4. Connexions Library/Archive
  5. Family Service Toronto
  6. Town of Markham
  7. Ontario Real Estate Association
  8. Toronto Real Estate Board
  9. United Nations Human Rights Council
  10. World Bank


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