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Hot off the presses; One-third off the regular price for Finding Room:
Options for a Canadian Rental Housing Strategy, the new book that delivers
the goods on Canada's nation-wide affordable housing crisis. Dr. David
Hulchanski, internationally-recognized as a leading policy expert, and
Michael Shapcott, who has worked with community-based housing groups for
more than two decades, have co-edited this important new book which brings
together a variety of experts.

Home isn't where you want to go, it's where you have to go; it's a right,
not a privilege, writes Toronto Mayor David Miller in the foreword to
Finding Room.

 To mark its publication, CUCS Press is offering this important new volume
at a special price one-third off the publication price. You can find an
on-line order form at
http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/home/books/Finding_Room-discount-30Sep.pdf.

 Finding Room: Options for a Canadian Rental Housing Strategy
Edited by J. David Hulchanski and Michael Shapcott
Foreword by Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto
 CUCS Press, September, 2004, $29.95
Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
 http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/
ISBN 0-7727-1433-9
 Distributor: University of Toronto Press

The twenty-seven chapters by two dozen authors in Finding Room all focus on
solutions to the toughest challenge in Canada's housing problem: how to
house people with moderate and low in-comes in a country where the market
mechanism is the main provider and allocator of housing, and where the
price structure for residential land is driven by the ownership market.
Homeowners in Canada have, on average, double the income of renters. Out of
the mixture of strategies and instruments governments can deploy to meet
housing policy objectives, there is no escaping the need for a more
significant federal and provincial government role. But what should this
role be?

 This book provides:

. a resource for community leaders, policy makers, researchers, and
students;
. a source of up-to-date information, critical analysis, and informed
opinion on policy options;
. a short course on the economic and political context for affordable
housing by leading re-searchers;
. a diversity of voices; from business to the non-profit sector to the
Aboriginal community.

 Part I of the book sets the context by explaining the nature and scope of
the problem and issues that an affordable housing policy must address.

 In Part II, specific housing needs and policy options are presented by
individuals from different backgrounds, representing different
organizations.

 Part III presents specific policy and program advice, for Canada as a
whole, and for Canada's largest metropolitan area

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