Try the link below:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/phdd/overview_implications/09_housing.html 

This url provides a summary of the housing presentations at the
Social Determinants of Health conference held at York University in
2002. You will find references for reports on the health status of
homeless populations, in particular Wendy Bines's research in the UK. 
There should be a more recent Street Health report since 1992.

And yes, Ken, we have a serious housing and homelessness crisis in
Canada. We do not have an absolute count on the numbers. However, increasingly, 
women with young children are living in temporary shelter or on the street.
The causes are federal and provincial housing policies. Canada has the
privatized/commodified housing market among OECD nations according to a
Cambridge University study. It is one of the few western nations
without a national housing strategy. In addition, some provincial governments
have eliminated rent control which protected the affordable rental
housing market. As a result of lifting rent control, many tenants are
unable to pay their rents and face eviction. In fact, a study completed
a few years ago by the Canadian Co-operative Housing Federation found
that evictions in Ontario had increased significantly as a result of
replacing rent control with vacancy decontrol. The Ontario Conservative
government introduced vacancy decontrol in 1998. It removes rent control
one rental unit at a time. In other words, as a tenant vacates an
apartment, a landlord is free to increase rent without restriction.
There is consequently a strong incentive for landlords to force tenants
out in order to benefit from this policy change.


Toba Bryant, PhD

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