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Housing - Linksno place like home vancouverApril 21, 2008 - 12:48pm
http://www.noplacelikehomevancouver.org/ - The no place like home website documents a complaint to the UN by the PIVOT Legal Society, Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition (IOCC) about the housing conditions of Vancouver's poorest residents. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Homelessness | Housing | Human Rights )
Squatter City BlogOctober 30, 2007 - 10:35am
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/ - Squatter City Blog is a blog about squatters and squatter cities around the world written by a New York-based writer who spent two years living in squatter communities in four continents. ( categories: Links | International | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing )
Abandonment IssuesOctober 23, 2007 - 1:24pm
http://abandonment-issues.blogspot.com/ - Abandonment Issues is a Toronto-based coalition of housing activists fighting to get abandoned and underutilized buildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housing. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing )
Centre for Equality Rights in AccommodationJuly 30, 2007 - 12:47pm
www.equalityrights.org/cher - The goal of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation website is to provide housing workers and advocates across Canada with information and tools to enable them to overcome - using a human rights framework - the barriers that keep people from accessing and retaining adequate housing. ( categories: Links | Canada | Housing | Human Rights | Legal Research )
City Wide Housing CoalitionJuly 27, 2007 - 9:52am
citywidehousingcoalition.org - The City Wide Housing Coalition is a coalition in Vancouver working to save and build low income housing. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Homelessness | Housing | Organizing )
Monarch Housing AssociatesJuly 26, 2007 - 1:44pm
monarchhousing.org/blog- This blog provides news and commentary on ending homelessness and expanding supportive housing in New Jersery, USA. ( categories: Links | United States | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing )
David Eby's BlogJuly 11, 2007 - 8:49am
davideby.blogspot.com - David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty. ( categories: Links | Blogs | Homelessness | Housing | Legal Research | Poverty Research )
The Centre on Housing Rights and EvictionsJune 11, 2007 - 3:53pm
http://www.cohre.org - The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an international independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the prevention of forced evictions. ( categories: Links | International | Homelessness | Housing )
City of Vancouver Housing CentreJuly 7, 2006 - 10:05am
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/commsvcs/housing/ - is Vancouver's community services group, housing centre department, home page. Information on rental housing in Vancouver, the tenants assistance program, and a map index page that shows neighbourhood maps detailing locations of non market housing. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Housing )
Centre for Equality Rights in AccommodationJuly 4, 2006 - 8:43am
http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/ - CERA is one of the nation's leaders in human rights protection in housing. ( categories: Links | Canada | Housing | Human Rights )
Tenant Resource & Advisory CentreJune 30, 2006 - 2:27pm
http://tenants.bc.ca - (TRAC) is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization working on behalf of B.C.'s one million tenants. They came together in 1983 to protest a government plan to eliminate rent control and abolish the Rentalsman, a government agency which mediated disputes between landlords and tenants. Today, they work to improve legal protection for tenants, and to promote community action for the purpose of protecting and increasing the supply of affordable rental housing in B.C. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Housing | Tenants' Rights )
The Co-operative Housing Federation of CanadaJune 30, 2006 - 2:22pm
http://www.chfc.ca/eng/chf/home.htm - The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada CHF Canada is the national voice of Canada's co-operative housing movement. ( categories: Links | Canada | Housing )
Housing Information GatewayJune 30, 2006 - 1:11pm
http://www.colorado.edu/plan/housing-info/ - Another gateway, this university website offers links to housing resources on the internet. ( categories: Links | United States | Housing )
Co-op Housing Federation of BCJune 30, 2006 - 12:52pm
http://www.chf.bc.ca/ - Co-op Housing Federation of BC (CHF BC) is a co-operative association whose members are housing co-ops and related organizations in British Columbia. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Housing )
Canadian Housing & Renewal Association/ L'Association canadienne d'habitation et de rénovation urbaineJune 30, 2006 - 12:37pm
http://www.chra-achru.ca/ - CHRA is a national non-profit organization representing those who manage and deliver housing programs in communities across Canada. http://www.chra-achru.ca/ - L'Association canadienne d'habitation et de rénovation urbaine (ACHRU) est un organisme national sans but lucratif qui répresente les gens qui organisent et fournissent les programmes de logement à travers le Canada. ( categories: Links | Canada | Bilingual | Housing )
National Aboriginal Housing Association/ Association National d'Habitation AutochoneJune 30, 2006 - 11:46am
http://www.aboriginalhousing.org/ - A membership-based organization, NAHA/ANHA represents the interests of non-reserve Aboriginal housing providers in cities, towns and the north. http://www.aboriginalhousing.org/ - NAHA/ANHA, une organisation basée sur l'adhésion, représent les intérets des fournisseurs de l'habition autochtone dans les villes, les villages et le nord. ( categories: Links | Canada | Bilingual | Aboriginal/First Nations | Housing )
BC HousingJanuary 23, 2005 - 12:00am
http://www.bchousing.org/ - is the government site which is the funding agency which offers housing assistance to low- and moderate-income families, seniors, urban singles and people with special needs. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Housing )
Housing New CanadiansApril 9, 2004 - 11:00pm
http://www.hnc.utoronto.ca/ - Housing New Canadians is a research partnership focused on housing access and discrimination in the Toronto area, where about forty percent of all newcomers to Canada settle. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Housing | Immigrants & Refugees )
Housing AgainMarch 30, 2001 - 12:00am
http://housingagain.web.ca/ - This national site is designed to raise awareness of housing and homelessness issues and to put affordable housing back on the political agenda. ( categories: Links | Canada | Homelessness | Housing )
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