e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Silver, James, 1946-
Subjects
Low-income housing -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Poor -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Poverty -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Prevention.
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Silver, James, 1946-
by title:
Solving poverty : in...
by call number:
363.596942 S587s
Search the Web
Silver, James, 1946-
Low-income housing -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Poor -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Poverty -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Prevention.
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions.
MARC Display
Solving poverty : innovative strategies from Winnipeg's inner city / Jim Silver.
by
Silver, James, 1946-
Fernwood Publishing, c2016.
Call #:
363
.596942
S587s
Subjects
Low-income housing -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Poor -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Poverty -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Prevention.
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9781552668214 (pbk.)
Description:
280 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-280).
Summary:
This book examines the real life circumstances of low-income people who are forced to live in poor housing. It examines the history and current status of low-income housing in one typical Canadian city, Winnipeg. Poverty and racism and a consistent unwillingness on the part of governments to invest in decent housing for low-income people are themes that are found throughout the book. It offers a close examination of some of the serious challenges faced by low-income people in poor housing, including difficulties with landlords who abuse their power, and challenges with bedbugs and a wide range of other social and psychological problems. The book considers the particular housing problems faced by Aboriginal people and by newcomers newly arrived in the city, as well as single individuals living in rooming houses. The central role played by all three levels of government in the provision of decent quality, affordable housing for low-income people is considered. A cost-benefit analysis of the provision of social--that is, subsidized--housing is included, and it finds that for society as a whole, the benefits of providing subsidized housing for low-income people far outweigh the costs. And a number of creative and successful housing strategies for low-income people are described, including Aboriginal housing co-ops, a revitalized public housing complex, and a highly creative repurposing of an inner city church, whose congregation has largely left for the suburbs, into supported social housing. In these successful cases, communities and governments have worked cooperatively to good effect.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.596942 S587s
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.