Barriers to accessing social housing programs in Canada

References

• Auditor General of Nova Scotia (2022). Oversight and Management of Government Owned Public Housing: Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Halifax: Office of the Auditor General of Nova Scotia).
   Google Scholar
• Bauder, H. (2017) Sanctuary cities: Policies and practices in international perspective, International Migration, 55, pp. 174–187.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• BfE SuperCrew (2022). Get in Line: A Guide to Peterborough’s System for Housing and Sheltering the Unhoused (Peterborough: Research for Social Change Lab).
   Google Scholar
• Blackstock, C. (2016) Toward the full and proper implementation of Jordan’s principle: An elusive goal to date, Paediatrics & Child Health, 21, pp. 245–246.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brantford-Brant (2021). 2021 Brantford Brant Point-in-Time Count Report. Available at https://www.brantford.ca/en/living-here/resources/Documents/Housing/PIT-Report-2021-Sept16-2021.pdf (accessed 10 January 2023).
   Google Scholar
• Browne Gott, H., Mackie, P. K. & England, E. (2023) Housing rights, homelessness prevention and a paradox of bureaucracy? Housing Studies, 38, pp. 250–268.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (2019). Core Housing Need Status: Housing in Canada Online. Definitions of Variables. Available at https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-research/core-housing-need (accessed 5 October 2023).
   Google Scholar
• Callaghan, M., Farha, L. & Porter, B. (2002) Women and Housing in Canada: Barriers to Equality (Toronto: Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation).
   Google Scholar
• Chareyron, S. & Domingues, P. (2018) Take-up of social assistance benefits: the case of the French homeless, Review of Income and Wealth, 64, pp. 170–191.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Choi, N. G. & Snyder, L. (1999) Voices of homeless parents: the pain of homelessness and shelter life, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2, pp. 55–77.
   Google Scholar
• Cooper, S. & Skelton, I. (2015) Addressing Core Housing Need in Canada (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives).
   Google Scholar
• Cusack, M. & Montgomery, A. E. (2018) Barriers and facilitators to housing access and maintenance in HUD-VASH: Participant and staff perspectives, Social Work in Health Care, 57, pp. 422–439.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daigneault, P.-M., Jacob, S. & Tereraho, M. (2012) Understanding and improving the take-up of public programs: Lessons learned from the Canadian and international experience in human services, International Journal of Business and Social Science, 3, pp. 39–50.
   Google Scholar
• Daigneault, P.-M. & Macé, C. (2020) Program awareness, administrative burden, and non-take-up of Québec’s supplement to the work premium, International Journal of Public Administration, 43, pp. 527–539.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daoud, N., Matheson, F. I., Pedersen, C., Hamilton-Wright, S., Minh, A., Zhang, J. & O’Campo, P. (2016) Pathways and trajectories linking housing instability and poor health among low-income women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV): Toward a conceptual framework, Women & Health, 56, pp. 208–225.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Darrah-Okike, J., Soakai, S., Nakaoka, S., Dunson-Strane, T. & Umemoto, K. (2018) ‘It was like I lost everything’: The harmful impacts of homeless-targeted policies, Housing Policy Debate, 28, pp. 635–651.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dej, E., Gaetz, S. & Schwan, K. (2020) Turning off the tap: A typology for homelessness prevention, The Journal of Primary Prevention, 41(5), pp. 397–412. doi: 10.1007/s10935-020-00607-y
   Google Scholar
• Desmond, M. (2018) Heavy is the house: Rent burden among the American urban poor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42, pp. 160–170.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dewanckel, L., Schiettecat, T., Hermans, K., Roose, R., Van Lancker, W. & Roets, G. (2022) Researching the non-take up of social rights: a social work perspective, British Journal of Social Work, 52, pp. 1416–1434.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Hilario, H., Corbett, A. M. & Weeks, M. (2007) Unofficial policy: Access to housing, housing information and social services among homeless drug users in Hartford, Connecticut, Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2. doi: 10.1186/1747-597X-2-8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dufferin County (2021). 2021 Point-in-Time Count Results Report. Available at https://www.dufferincounty.ca/sites/default/files/housing/Dufferin%20County%202021%20Point-in-Time%20Count%20Results%20Report.pdf (accessed 10 January 2023).
   Google Scholar
• Dweik, I., Watson, B. & Woodhall-Melnik, J. (2022) Publicly subsidized housing and physical health: A literature review, Housing Studies, pp. 1–23. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2153108
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Falvo, N. (2020) The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Recession on Homelessness in Canada: What to Expect, What to Track, What to Do (Gatineau: Employment and Social Development Canada).
   Google Scholar
• Flow Community Projects (2021). Regina Homelessness Count. Available at https://flowcommunityprojects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Regina-Point-in-Time-Count-2021-Electronic-Copy.pdf (accessed 10 January 2023).
   Google Scholar
• Fogg, K. (2013) History of low-income taxpayer clinics, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Papers, 67(1). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2142144
   Google Scholar
• Francis, L. E. (2000) Conflicting bureaucracies, conflicted work: Dilemmas in case management for homeless people with mental illness, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 27, pp. 97–112.
   Google Scholar
• Gaetz, S., Dej, E., Richter, T. & Redman, M. (2016) The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 (Toronto: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press).
   Google Scholar
• Geller, A. & Curtis, M. A. (2011) A sort of homecoming: Incarceration and the housing security of urban men, Social Science Research, 40, pp. 1196–1213.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glassey, O. & Glassey, O. F. (2005) A proximity indicator for e-Government, Journal of E-Government, 1, pp. 5–20.
   Google Scholar
• Gyourko, J., Mayer, C. & Sinai, T. (2013) Superstar cities, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5, pp. 167–199.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hernanz, V., Malherbet, F. & Pellizzari, M. (2004) Take-Up of Welfare Benefits in OECD Countries: A Review of the Evidence (Paris: Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs).
   Google Scholar
• Holl, M., van den Dries, L. & Wolf, J. R. L. M. (2016) Interventions to prevent tenant evictions: A systematic review, Health & Social Care in the Community, 24, pp. 532–546.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Homelessness Services Association of BC (2021). 2020/21 Report on Homeless Counts in B.C. Available at https://www.bchousing.org/publications/2020-21-BC-Homeless-Counts.pdf (accessed 10 January 2023).
   Google Scholar
• Housing Services Act (2011). S.O. 2011, c. 6, Sched. 1. Reg. 367/11: General.
   Google Scholar
• Jeffrey, N. K. & Barata, P. C. (2017) When social assistance reproduces social inequality: Intimate partner violence survivors’ adverse experiences with subsidized housing, Housing Studies, 32, pp. 912–930.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kadi, J. & Lilius, J. (2022) The remarkable stability of social housing in Vienna and Helsinki: A multi-dimensional analysis, Housing Studies, pp. 1–25. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2135170
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kadi, J., Vollmer, L. & Stein, S. (2021) Post-neoliberal housing policy? Disentangling recent reforms in New York, Berlin and Vienna, European Urban and Regional Studies, 28, pp. 353–374.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Katz, M. B. (2013) The Undeserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press).
   Google Scholar
• Kidd, S., Virdee, G., Krupa, T., Burnham, D., Hemingway, D., Margolin, I., Patterson, M. L. & Zabkiewicz, D. (2013) The role of gender in housing for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative study of the Canadian service context, BMJ Open, 3, pp. e002914.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Knoll, K., Schularick, M. & Steger, T. (2017) No price like home: Global house prices, 1870-2012, American Economic Review, 107, pp. 331–353.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Madden, D. & Marcuse, P. (2016) Defense of Housing (London: Verso).
   Google Scholar
• McCabe, B. J. (2023) Ready to rent: Administrative decisions and poverty governance in the housing choice voucher program, American Sociological Review, 88, pp. 86–113.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nelson, G. & Aubry, T. (2017) A Portable Housing Benefit as an Indispensable Component of Ending Homelessness in Canada: Policy Brief (Toronto: EENET, Ontario Housing First Regional Community of Interest).
   Google Scholar
• Niagara Region (2021) Niagara Counts Results 2021. Available at https://pub-niagararegion.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=16848 (accessed 10 January 2023).
   Google Scholar
• Noble, A., Thulien, N. S., Owens, B., Suleiman, A., Loganathan, M., Ali, D., Coplan, I., Neal, J., Baja, E. & Ramkissoon, K. (2022) The Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Shifting to a Collaborative, Prevention-Focused Response in a Large Urban Area (Toronto: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press).
   Google Scholar
• Nnawulezi, N., Godsay, S., Sullivan, C. M., Marcus, S. & Hacskaylo, M. (2018) The influence of low-barrier and voluntary service policies on survivor empowerment in a domestic violence housing organization, The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88, pp. 670–680.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• O’Donnell, J. (2021) Does social housing reduce homelessness? A multistate analysis of housing and homelessness pathways, Housing Studies, 36, pp. 1702–1728.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Palys, T. (1997) Research Decisions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Harcourt Canada).
   Google Scholar
• Parsell, C., Cheshire, L., Walter, Z. & Clarke, A. (2022) Social housing after neo-liberalism: New forms of state-driven welfare intervention toward social renters, Housing Studies, 37, pp. 1124–1146.
   Google Scholar
• Pleace, N., Teller, N. & Quilgars, D. (2011) Social Housing Allocation and Homelessness (Brussels: EOH Comparative Studies on Homelessness, FEANTSA).
   Google Scholar
• Rickford, R. (2016) Black lives matter: Toward a modern practice of mass struggle, New Labor Forum, 25, pp. 34–42.
   Google Scholar
• Rog, D. J., Henderson, K. A., Lunn, L. M., Greer, A. L. & Ellis, M. L. (2017) The interplay between housing stability and child separation: Implications for practice and policy, American Journal of Community Psychology, 60, pp. 114–124.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roman, C. & Travis, J. (2006) Where will I sleep tomorrow: Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner, Housing Policy Debate, 17, pp. 389–418.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Salem, B. E., Kwon, J., Ekstrand, M. L., Hall, E., Turner, S. F., Faucette, M. & Slaughter, R. (2021) Transitioning into the community: Perceptions of barriers and facilitators experienced by formerly incarcerated, homeless women during reentry – A qualitative study, Community Mental Health Journal, 57, pp. 609–621.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sanders, C., Burnett, K., Lam, S., Hassan, M. & Skinner, K. (2020) ‘You need ID to get ID’: A scoping review of personal identification as a barrier to and facilitator of the social determinants of health in North America, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, pp. 4227–4247.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scanlon, K., Fernández Arrigoitia, M. & Whitehead, C. M. E. (2015) Social housing in Europe, European Policy Analysis, 17, pp. 1–12.
   Google Scholar
• Schwan, K., Versteegh, A., Perri, M., Caplan, R., Baig, K., Dej, E., Jenkinson, J., Brais, H., Eiboff, F. & Pahlevan Chaleshtari, T. (2020) The State of Women’s Housing Need & Homelessness in Canada: Literature Review (Toronto: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press).
   Google Scholar
• Shinn, M., Brown, S. R., Spellman, B. E., Wood, M., Gubits, D. & Khadduri, J. (2017) Mismatch between homeless families and the homelessness service system, Cityscape, 9, pp. 293–308.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, L. (2017) The gendered impact of illegal act eviction laws, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 52, pp. 538–559.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Statistics Canada (2019). First Results from the Canadian Housing Survey, 2018 (Ottawa: Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-001-X).
   Google Scholar
• Statistics Canada (2022). Core Housing Need in Canada, Census of Population (Ottawa: Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-627-M).
   Google Scholar
• Suttor, G. (2016) Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
   Google Scholar
• Tabol, C., Drebing, C. & Rosenheck, R. (2010) Studies of ‘supported’ and ‘supportive’ housing: A comprehensive review of model descriptions and measurement, Evaluation and Program Planning, 33, pp. 446–456.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• To, M., Palepu, A., Matheson, F. I., Ecker, J., Farrell, S., Hwang, S. W. & Werb, D. (2016) The effect of incarceration on housing stability among homeless and vulnerably housed individuals in three Canadian cities: A prospective cohort study, Canadian Journal of Public Health, 107, pp. e550–e555.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tsai, J., Bond, G. R., Salyers, M. P., Godfrey, J. L. & Davis, K. E. (2010) Housing preferences and choices among adults with mental illness and substance use disorders: a qualitative study, Community Mental Health Journal, 46, pp. 381–388.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Turner, M. A. (1998) Moving out of poverty: Expanding mobility and choice through tenant-based housing assistance, Housing Policy Debate, 9, pp. 373–394.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van Oorschot, W. (1991) Non-take-up of social security benefits in Europe, Journal of European Social Policy, 1, pp. 15–30.
   Google Scholar
• van Oorschot, W. (1995) Realizing Rights: A Multi-Level Approach to Non-Take-Up of Means-Tested Benefits (Aldershot: Avebury).
   Google Scholar
• Wetzstein, S. (2017) The global urban housing affordability crisis, Urban Studies, 54, pp. 3159–3177.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wusinich, C., Bond, L., Nathanson, A. & Padgett, D. K. (2019) ‘If you’re gonna help me, help me’: Barriers to housing among unsheltered homeless adults, Evaluation and Program Planning, 76, pp. 101673.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zinger, I. (2020) Indigenous People in Federal Custody Surpasses 30%: Correctional Investigator Issues Statement and Challenge, Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada. Available at https://oci-bec.gc.ca/cnt/comm/press/press20200121-eng.aspx?texthighlight=indigenization (accessed 10 January 2023).
   Google Scholar