GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Visible Minority, Social Capital, Financial Risk
26 Nov 2017
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,000 while the cost for a month in social housing is less than $ 200. Issue of homelessness is based on the cost of housing. York region: o(cid:374)e of ca(cid:374)ada"s fastest growi(cid:374)g su(cid:271)ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) areas. Immigrants constituted 43% of the regions population in 2006. Immigrants and housing: from transitional to affordable housing (rental apartments) (immigrants are more likely than. Causes of homelessness among immigrants: shortage of affordable housing, systemic barriers to employment, settlement support reduction, lack of knowledge of the system, discrimination in the housing market. York region: shortage of rental units, small number of affordable social units, abundance of expensive single-family detached housing. Immigrants in york region: mainly from asia, many are secondary migrants, tend to live as couples with children and in multifamily households. Housing supply in york region: housing is expensive, predominance of owner-occupied housing (86%, scarcity of rental units, scarcity of affordable rental units.
