What Should Be Done with the Public Housing Program?

Connerly, Charles E.

doi:10.1080/01944368608976614

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“…The Netherlands has also expanded non-profit housing (Wollman & Jaedicke, 1989). In the US it has been suggested that non-profit community development agencies should be involved as sponsors of social housing in addition to public housing authorities (Bratt, 1986;Connerly, 1986) although private, for-profit organizations have been widely used (Bratt, 1987). In the case of Ontario, social housing was built in the early post-war period with federal support in a public housing program.…”

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The geographic distribution of social housing in Ontario, Canada: Comparing public housing and locally sponsored, third sector housing

Skelton¹

1996

Housing Studies

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This paper provides a perspective on the contemporary debate over the production of social housing. Its main focus is on the issue that geographic patterns of service levels may be related to the type of supply program in place. The paper describes the social housing programs in Ontario, Canada over the post-war period. Two main approaches have been taken: public housing, an essentially centralized program; and locally sponsored, third sector housing provided through non-profit corporations and co-operatives. The programs operated in different time periods and the analysis suggests they do have distinctive geographic distributions. The distribution of public housing shows strong correlations with need as defined by the incidence of poor housing conditions and mother-led families. Provision under the localized program is also strongly correlated with the incidence of mother-led families; however, the most consistent associations are with measures of socio-economic status. These results may be partly understood in terms of the changing concept of housing need over the temporal span of the study. Program influences may be that the centralized nature of the public housing program enabled the direction of allocations to high need areas; whereas under the localized program the distribution is more closely related to the social differentiation of leadership roles in service provision under a third sector delivery model. As this approach becomes more prevalent it may be important to examine its potential impacts on service provision.

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The geographic distribution of social housing in Ontario, Canada: Comparing public housing and locally sponsored, third sector housing

Skelton¹

1996

Housing Studies

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“…In a way to improve on the public housing provision, [23] did pointed out the problems with public housing programs as follows: many public housing authorities especially the larger ones are not in a good financial position to take on the development of new projects and instead devote themselves to repairing their existing units; poor management practice also seems to prevent a number of public housing authorities from being effective developers and administrators of assisted housing; and some of the public housings problems stem from its poor public image. These problems are very much with us today in our public housing provision.…”

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“…However, these problems can be tackled. [23], recommended that expansion of public housing should be seriously considered especially in the area of sponsorship and that community development organizations be viewed as desirable sponsors of public housing. The research feels that while sponsorship is needed to fund public housing as suggested to make for quality provision, residents partnering in both provision and maintenance will assist in both management of fund and satisfactory living.…”

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Residents’ partnering in public housing basic infrastructure provision and maintenance: a strategy for satisfactory public housing provision

Oguejiofo¹

2014

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“…Several recent studies (Connerly, 1986;Boelhouwer and Van Weesep, 1988;Achtenburg, 1989;Whitehead, 1993;Linneman and Megbolugbe, 1994) question these more optimistic results and doubt if any of the benefits claimed are worth the cost.…”

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