Lord Selkirk Park (LSP) is a 314 unit public housing community in Winnipeg’s north end. A major redevelopment of the community began in 2009 and included a $17 million renovation of the housing stock, employment of local residents to undertake the renovation, a new community Resource Centre, a new infant childcare centre that employs an Abecedarian early childhood education model, and a new adult learning centre. This case study attempts to understand first how and why LSP changed as result of the redevelopment and secondly, why decision-makers chose to make such investments. The case of LSP was selected because it is an example of an intervention in a public housing community grounded in social democratic ideology and is both integrated and place-based. Literature reviewed to establish the context for the study included studies related to: rationales for the integration of housing policy with the larger social policy context; perspectives on the role and future of social housing; studies on the persistence of poverty in public housing communities; and evaluations of interventions that have historically taken place in public housing – dispersal, mixed-income, homeownership and integrated, place-based programs. The thesis concludes that one perspective on these four issues is largely draw from a neoliberal ideology based on culture of poverty and new public management theories. A second perspective is drawn from social democratic ideology based on social determinants of health and community economic development theories. Data collected includes interviews with thirteen tenants of LSP, eight service providers, and three senior decision-makers in the Manitoba government, participant observation data, and data drawn from public documentation. The thesis concluded that LSP had changed for the better as a result of the redevelopment. LSP became a safer, more desirable place to live. The quality of the housing improved. Residents demonstrated better social cohesion and had access to and were using services that could lead to improved self-sufficiency. Further, the research concludes that the redevelopment was successful because it was place-based, integrated and based on identified community needs. Finally, the thesis concludes that decision-makers supported this model of redevelopment because they held social democratic values.

Leek, with 53,102 acres and nineteen townships, was the largest of Staffordshire's medieval parishes, and one for which an earlier origin- has been suggested. Set in the foothills of the Pennines it formed part of the Leek and Macclesfield Forest where, in the early thirteenth century, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, established both the market town of Leek and the Cistercian abbey of Dieulacres. Altitude, high rainfall and a short growing season made it a pastoral area with a settlement pattern of small hamlets and isolated farms. It was an `open' parish with huge areas of waste, and population growth between 1563 and 1666 was well above the national average. The absence of wealth is reflected in the survival rate of early houses. Only five pre-date 1500, and sixteenth century remains are small and generally fragmentary. In the seventeenth century national growth worked in favour of the pastoral farmer. Leek's cattle market became one of the most important in the county, and a newfound prosperity manifested itself in the rural areas in good quality stone housing. The houses of the gentry and yeoman farmers survive in considerable numbers from this period, and form a major element in this study. The houses of the poor have been more elusive. Pastoral farming was increasingly supplemented by industry. Iron smelting had been present from the Middle Ages, but faded away in the eighteenth century. The making of buttons and silk goods were established in the seventeenth century, and the eighteenth century saw a modest expansion of urban wealth, and a new generation of houses built for dyers, button-men, `mohair' merchants and lawyers. The button industry dwindled in the face of competition from Birmingham, but the silk industry survived to become industrialized in the nineteenth century, when the market town was engulfed in a sea of mill buildings and workers housing.

Improving access to affordable housing is often approached through efforts to increase the supply of such housing, as the need to make better use of existing resources and coordinating the efforts of housing providers is often overlooked. A central housing registry in Winnipeg would be one approach to improving coordination and better access for low-income households to affordable housing. This study explores different examples of housing registries that exist in Canada and the United States. It provides insight into the benefits and challenges of housing registries through web searches and a survey. A focus group was also used to gain insight on the local context for developing a central housing registry. This research will increase the awareness of the benefits of a central housing registry and provides recommendations on how to approach the development and implementation of a central housing registry.

Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geography, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-108).

Thesis (M.U.R.P. 1979) from the Department of Architecture, University of Adelaide.

Thesis (M.U.R.P. )--University of Adelaide, 1980. / "B. Coates 1979" --Cover. Bibliography: p. 128-132.

Study project (M.P.A.)--University of Stellenbosch, 1998. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 117-119)

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Greifswald.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bern.