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HARP-478 |
Title: |
Complicity or social change: housing requirements and development |
Source: |
Canadian Woman Studies , v.13(3) Spring, 1993 pg 48-51 |
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Year: |
1993 |
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Canada, discrimination, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, right to housing, United Nations, racism, sexism, heterosexuality/heterosexualism, standard of living |
Abstract: |
The many ways in which the concept of a “right to housing” is understood play a large role in defining how and for whom housing is provided in everyday life. The concept of a “right to housing” is socially learned, and both shapes and is shaped by ideologies about how a particular society functions. For example, ideologies of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class influence where and under what conditions people may live in cities and globally where and how people may migrate. The way a society understands the right to housing is clearly reflected in who has adequate shelter and who does not and under what conditions. Regardless of national, international, and NGO claims supporting the right to housing, it is clear that homelessness and oppressive substandard housing conditions are increasing in Canada as well as globally. With a global population in 1985 of about 4.8 billion, United Nations’ reports estimate that one billion people do not have adequate shelter, 100 million have no shelter whatsoever, and 50 thousand people die daily of slum related diseases (UN, 1987). According to a 1985 study by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), half a million people in Canada do not have adequate housing. |
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Keywords: Canada, cultural rights, discrimination, economic, heterosexuality/heterosexualism, human rights, racial discrimination/racism, right to housing, sexism, social, standard of living, United Nations