PLE 535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Trade, Structural Adjustment, Insitu
7 Dec 2017
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Federal government to spend billion once-in-a-gentrification joint investment: housing rights are human rights, federal community housing initiative, canada community housing initiative, homelessness program. Improve homeownership options for canadians: national housing co-investment fund and federal lands, federal-provincial/territorial housing partnership. An area that combines the following characteristics: Inadequate access to sanitation and other infrastructure: poor structural quality of housing, overcrowding. Characteristics: lack of basic services, substandard housing or illegal/inadequate structures, overcrowding & high density, unhealthy living conditions or hazardous locations. Insecure tenure, irregular & informal settlement: squatter settlement. 2015: 1 billion people living in slums. Urbanization: postwar: rapid urbanization in global south, lack of services to support growth, not accommodated by economic growth. Poverty: nearly half the world lives on . 50 per day, more than 1. 3 live on . 25. Inequality: global inequality on the rise since 1800, global inequality has worsened since 1970s.
