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2 C.Theodore Koebel, “Housing conditions of low-income families in the private, unassisted
housing market in the United States,” Housing Studies, 12(2) (1997), p. 201.
3 Ibid.
4 McCrone, G. and Stephens, M., Housing Policy in Britain and Europe (London: UCL Press,
1995).
5 Pete Malpass, “Housing tenure and affordability: the British disease,” in G.Hallett (ed.) The
New Housing Shortage (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 68.
6 Howenstine, E.J., “The new housing shortage: the problem of housing affordability in the
United States,” in G.Hallett, supra note 5, p. 25.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., pp. 25–6.
9 van Weesep, J. and van Kempen, R., “Low income and housing in the Dutch welfare state,” in
G.Hallett, supra note 5, pp. 179–206.
10 Shlomi Feiner, “Getting our housing in order: the privatization of public housing in Ontario,”
Centre for the Study of State and Market WPS #35 (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1997),
pp. 6–7.
11 “Taking responsibility for homelessness: an action plan for Toronto” (January, 1999) Report
of the Mayor’s Homelessness Action Task Force, 56 [hereinafter the Golden Report].
12 Micheal E.Stone, Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability (Philadelphia, PA:
Temple University Press, 1993), p. 2.
13 See, for instance, Materu, J.S., “Housing for low-income groups: beyond the sites-andservices
model in Tanzania,” Ekistics, 61(366–7) (May–August, 1994), pp. 223–31; Sivam,
A. and Karuppannan, S., “Role of state and market in housing delivery for low-income
groups in India,” Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 17 (2002), pp. 69–88.
14 The Japan Almanac 2001 (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 2001).
15 Ontario Affordable Housing Program Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2002, p. 4.
16 McCrone and Stephens supra note 4, p. 14.
17 Materu supra note 13, p. 223.
18 While it is certainly possible to make the case that housing investment also constitutes a
means of regulating public morality and of insuring individual risk, such arguments are
seldom advanced or influential, and hence will not be examined in detail here.
19 For a comprehensive theoretical discussion of the relationships between civic engagement
and social solidarity, see James Coleman’s influential “Social capital in the creation of
human capital,” American Journal of Sociology, 94 (1988), pp. 95–120, as well as his The
Foundations of Social Theory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 300–
21. A more recent discussion of civic engagement and American political life is found in
Robert Putnam, “The prosperous community: social capital and public life,” American
Prospect, 13 (1993), pp. 35–42; “Bowling alone,” Journal of Democracy, 6(1) (January,
1995), pp. 65–78; and in his more recent book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). See also Alexis de
Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America (Maier, J.P., ed.; Lawrence, G., trans.) (Garden
City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969), especially pp. 513–17. Finally, see also Jane Jacobs, The
Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House, 1961).
20 Cohen, L. and Swift, S., “A public health approach to the violence epidemic in the United
States,” Environment and Urbanization, 5(2) (October, 1993), pp. 50–66.
21 Castells, Manuel, The City and Grass Roots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social
Movements (London: Edward Arnold, 1983).
22 Modibo Coulibaly, Rodney D.Green and David M.James, Segregation in Federally
Subsidized Low-income Housing in the United States (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), pp.
112–13.
23 Ibid., p.113. Of the 7,073 projects indicated, 15 percent housed only one racial group. In
1,010, blacks were the only tenants, while 789 were exclusively white.