HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Radon, Housing First
Document Summary
Shelter - basic human prerequisite for health, important social determinant of health, is a major, inflexible, core expense. Most canadians (80%) are well housed - leaving 20% unable to find affordable, acceptable, safe home. ~235,000 per year will experience homelessness, and 10-15% are chronically homeless . Rental housing developed with the assistance of government and subsidized by municipal, provincial and federal governments for people with low to moderate incomes, seniors, and people with special needs. Rent-geared-to-income (rgi); renters pay 30% of income in rent. History or government support (federal, provincial, municipal): Strong federal social housing program from late 1940s to 1993 -> 650,000 social housing units built. Ontario funded a social housing program from mid-1980s to 1995. Federal social housing cuts began in 1984 with mulrooney. 1993: all new federal social housing money cut under chretien & martin. Material dimensions: state of repair, physical and chemical exposures, cost.
