Housing as a human right, rent supplements and the new Canada Housing Benefit
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Demand-side' approaches to housing affordability-including rent supplements and housing allowances-are used to address housing precarity in many countries.A core program of Canada's new National Housing Strategy is the Canada Housing Benefit (CHB), an allowance co-designed and co-funded by provinces and territories alongside the federal government.We explore the implementation of the CHB in one province (Nova Scotia) through the experiences of those receiving rental assistance and non-profit staff supporting them.First, we ask whether the provision of rent subsidies meets a rights-based approach to housing, focusing on affordability, habitability, and security of tenure.Second, we ask whether the transition from the former rent supplement system to the new CHB facilitates or inhibits a rights-based approach.We find that tenants on either subsidy live in housing which is unaffordable, of poor quality, and may lack security of tenure; secondly, the introduction of the new CHB has largely left tenants worse off than under the previous rent subsidy system.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it