HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Radon, Toronto Star, Couchsurfing
15 Oct 2017
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Housing is an important social determinant of health and one of the basic human rights referenced in article 25 of the universal declaration of human rights, adopted in 1948: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of themselves and their family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care . If we translate this from households to people, about 80% of canadians are well-housed, while about. Many housing experts say that we have a housing crisis in canada because we do not have enough affordable housing. In particular, we do not have enough social housing . The federal government began cutting support for social housing in 1984, under prime minister brian mulrooney. In 1993, prime minister jean chretien, with finance minister paul martin, cut all new social housing money: with that change, canada became the only western, industrialized country without a social housing program.
