Keeping to the marketplace : the evolution of Canadian housing policy / John C. Bacher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacher, John C. (John Christopher), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Canada.

Housing policy.

Canada--Social policy.

Canada.

Physical Description:

x, 327 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some social housing was developed as a result of the 1949 National Housing Act (NHA) amendments but this program remained marginalized for many years as government policy favoured shelter provision by private entrepreneurs. While the 1973 amendments to the NHA set the stage for a vigorous "comprehensive" housing policy, these measures were short-lived. In 1978 federal termination of land banking and transfer of financial responsibilities for housing to the provinces encouraged a rapid contraction of the growth of social housing, contributing to mounting homelessness in the 1980s. Bacher's analysis is a fundamental departure from explanations of the policies of the Canadian federal state by both liberal and Marxist scholars. While accepting their notion of the "hegemonic" role of the ideologically rigid Department of Finance, he stresses that such orthodoxy was not shared throughout influential sections of the Canadian civil service. Many critical policy shapers chafed under the department's narrow constraints and were instrumental in effecting policy changes which enabled more socially responsive housing programs to develop.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Critical Stages in Canadian Housing Policy

Canadian Housing Policy in Perspective

Prelude to Policy: Government Inaction before the Great Depression

The Emergence of an Assisted Market Strategy, 1930-1935

Housing and Public Relations, 1935-1940

Between Necessity and Ideology: Conflict over the Federal Housing Role, 1939-1944

Upholding the Private Market in Adversity: The National Housing Act 1944 and the Birth of CMHC

The Return to Privatism, 1949-1954

Drift within Close Confines, 1955-1992

Between Community and Anomie: The Poles of Canadian Housing Policy

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85629-4

9786612856297

0-7735-6382-2