Single; thus, homeless forever? Inaccessibility and precarity of housing for single Indigenous women living in the Northwest territories: a policy review of the local housing organizations (LHOs) Tenant Relations Manual - 204 - Point rating of applications
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Northwest Territories (NWT), a point-rate system is administered by the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation (NWTHC) to ensure that households in greatest need for public housing are given priority access. This priority is often given to families with children, persons with disabilities, or seniors. This often leaves non-prioritized populations like single individuals without children limited access to public housing units, and in a state of housing precarity. In the NWT, housing precarity is experienced inter-sectionally; as race, gender, and household composition play a large role in public housing eligibility. Among these at-risk populations, single Indigenous women (SIW) face disproportionate barriers to accessing public housing. This paper argues that barriers to housing access are in part due to colonial, patriarchal, and paternal ideologies that have historically become embedded within housing policy and contributed to the disenfranchisement of SIW in public housing. Through a policy review of the LHO Tenant Relations Manual – Point Rating of Applications, this paper will call for gender-specific and cultural-specific policies and programs in order to effectively acknowledge the lived experiences of SIW accessing public housing policy in the NWT. Key words: Housing Policy; Public Housing; Housing Precarity; Northwest Territories; Indigenous
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.018 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".