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Utilizing critical and welfare state theory, this thesis is primarily centred on policy analysis regarding the design and implementation of the legislated right to housing in Canada alongside the National Housing Strategy. In examining Canada’s National Housing Strategy, right to housing legislation, and analysis and commentary around the 2019 Canadian federal budget, the thesis explores the potential for the right to housing to contribute to progressive policy shifts in Canada’s housing system at a time where the impacts of commodification and financialization continue to be prevalent. Additional literature related to Canada’s housing system and social welfare responses, and commentary on the right to housing in domestic and international contexts contributes to an assessment of the social and economic conditions that have led to the emergence of alternative housing policy, as well as the underlying principles and ideologies which guide and influence state intervention. Through this assessment, it is evident that while the legal space in which to claim the right to housing may be an important foundation to further highlight and challenge inequities in Canada’s housing system, the extent to which this results in tangible systemic change remains in question. Further topics are explored in the conclusion around the potential next steps and necessary considerations for implementation in the Canadian context. The research, analysis, and discussion present in this thesis is meant to contribute to a relevant and timely critical examination of the right to housing in Canada, centred within social work values, in order to better understand how to conceptualize and challenge inequities in Canada’s housing system. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

This case study focuses on a housing improvement policy in England aimed at low-income neighborhoods, and the participatory process that exists to affect that policy. The research explores factors which affected the participatory process and as a consequence, policy outcomes in two London boroughs (local governments). The recipients of the housing policy in both boroughs are low-income, working-class residents, yet one borough council is controlled by the Labour Party and the other is controlled by the Conservative Party. Based on arguments made in the literature on the prerequisites to participation, it was expected that because Labour decision-makers are supposedly more politically and socially congruent with these residents and their interests than Conservative decision-makers, that there would be greater likelihood for the decision-making process to be open to participation, and thus more responsive to the needs and expectations of the residents within the Labour borough. Findings indicated that the participatory process was generally the same in both boroughs and that decision-makers in the Labour borough were no more tolerant of or responsive to the residents' needs and demands than were those in the Conservative borough. The process of participation yielded similar results in both boroughs. Using a comparative case study method, this research explores reasons why the process and results were more similar than dissimilar. Where different results were achieved by the resident groups, they were mainly due to differences in the existence and quality of resident leadership. / M.U.A.

Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 148-149. / M.C.P.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management