ABSTRACT: Commencing in 2007, this report will be produced semi-annually, providing a summary of rental market statistics for urban centres with a population of over 10,000 in the province and is a valuable resource for renters, property managers, appraisers, developers, lending institutions , real estate professionals and public administrators. In 2006 CMHC expanded its coverage of the rental market in a number of major centres to include the secondary rental market. Information on the rental condominium apartment market in Calgary and Edmonton was added in 2006. In 2007, information…

ABSTRACT: Ideally suited for users looking for succinct, “at a glance” information, this semi-annual report is the best source for a complete picture of the Canadian rental market and is a valuable resource for renters, property managers, appraisers, developers, lending institutions, real estate professionals and public administrators. To complement existing information, in the Fall of 2006 CMHC expanded its coverage of the rental market in a number of major centres to include the secondary rental market. Rental condominium apartments for the Québec, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and…

ABSTRACT: Commencing in 2007, this report will be produced semi-annually, providing a summary of rental market statistics for urban centres with a population of over 10,000 in the province and is a valuable resource for renters, property managers, appraisers, developers, lending institutions , real estate professionals and public administrators. In 2006 CMHC expanded its coverage of the rental market in a number of major centres to include the secondary rental market. Information on the rental condominium apartment market in Calgary and Edmonton was added in 2006. In 2007, information…

ABSTRACT: Commencing in 2007, this report will be produced semi-annually, providing a summary of rental market statistics for urban centres with a population of over 10,000 in the province and is a valuable resource for renters, property managers, appraisers, developers, lending institutions , real estate professionals and public administrators. In 2006 CMHC expanded its coverage of the rental market in a number of major centres to include the secondary rental market. Information on the rental condominium apartment market in Calgary and Edmonton was added in 2006. In 2007, information…

ABSTRACT: Housing and housing supports play a critical role in HIV prevention, and they are also powerful determinants of health for people living with HIV. Stable and appropriate housing, however, continues to be one of the greatest unmet needs of people living with HIV. The Positive Spaces, Healthy Places (PSHP) study – jointly funded by CIHR, the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN), the AIDS Bureau of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario AIDS Network – is the first longitudinal community-based initiative in Canada to examine housing stability and housing outcomes among people…

ABSTRACT: Increasingly in North America, policy-makers and decision-makers are using the Housing First model – an approach that focuses on new means of rapid and sustained re-housing of the homeless in order to combat homelessness. In spite of its development, which began in 1992 in New York City, little has been written on its adaptation and transferability to Canadian municipalities. CPRN Housing Intern Nick Falvo, of Carleton University, looks at Housing First in his paper Homelessness, Program Responses, and an Assessment of Toronto’s Streets to Homes Program and its potential value to…

ABSTRACT: The role that environmental factors play in driving HIV and STI transmission risk among street-involved youth has not been well examined. We examined factors associated with number of sex partners using quasi-Poisson regression and consistent condom use using logistic regression among participants enroled in the At Risk Youth Study (ARYS). Among 529 participants, 253 (47.8%) reported multiple partners while only 127 (24.0%) reported consistent condom use in the past 6 months. Homelessness was inversely associated with consistent condom use (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]=0.47, p=0.008), while…

ABSTRACT: Do landlords prefer to rent to couples over single parents? What if the single parent has a Caribbean accent? Do they prefer to rent to people in low paying employment over individuals receiving the same amount from social assistance? Do they avoid renting to people associated with a mental health organization? Will a person with an identifiable South Asian accent have a harder time finding a place than someone with a so-called “Canadian” accent?

ABSTRACT: While there has been growing interest in comprehensive models of treatment and care for individuals living with HIV/AIDS, little attention has been given to the potential role that supervised injecting programs could play in increasing access to prevention and care services for HIV-positive injection drug users (IDU). We conducted 22 semi-structured interviews with HIV-positive IDU regarding a supervised injection program integrated in an HIV focused care facility known as the Dr. Peter Centre (DPC). We also interviewed seven staff members who supervise injections within the facility. All interviews were audio…

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the relationship between housing status and HIV risk using longitudinal, qualitative data collected in 2004-2005, from a purposeful sample of 65 active drug users in a variety of housed and homeless situations in Hartford, Connecticut. These data were supplemented with observations and in-depth interviews regarding drug use behavior …