SOC205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Housing Segregation In The United States, Needle Exchange Programme, Johann Joachim Quantz
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Inflation: household attributes-including age, education, race, gender, immigrant status and so on. Housing differentiate private from public: changes over time, differences by neighborhood type, role of suburbanization. Spending more time in-door, reduce the production of vitamin d, associated with exposure to sunlight. Types of housing and tenure: ownership, rental, alternative tenure arrangements. Inequalities in housing: crowding, adjusting for population growth. Cmhc: core housing need measurement, housing segregation. Role of group preferences: zoning and affordable housing. Inclusionary and exclusionary zoing: trends and inequalities sin house sizes. Episodic homelessness: the inability to obtain shelter for temporary period. Chronic homelessness: prolonged homelessness b/c of physical or mental incapability to obtain sustainable shelter and other material goods: increased in canada over the past 2 decades. Counts tend to underestimate the number of homeless for several reasons: homeless may refuse to use shelters, shelters may turn away homeless, beds may be inhabitable, do not include women"s shelters, detox, overflow.
