Reframing Indigenous housing policy in northern Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This review offers a critical discussion of the contemporary housing policy framework in northern Canada. The severity of housing need among Indigenous households in northern Canada has led to a ‘crisis’ framing that dominates northern policy discourse, shapes northern housing policy and programs, and ultimately undermines efforts to provide meaningful, evidenced and northern-driven housing policy. We focus our attention on two critical elements of contemporary northern housing policy: 1) the linear ‘housing continuum’ model and metrics used to measure housing need according to national standards; and 2) sporadic, crisis-driven funding for northern housing. Each of these policy tools have significant implications for the ways in which northern housing policy is developed and implemented across the homelands of northern and Indigenous peoples in Canada, and none are responsive to or reflective of northern housing needs and realities. We call instead for a reframing of northern Indigenous housing policy towards conceptualising housing as ‘home’ by centreing individual and community wellness and Indigenous self-determination through housing. This discussion contributes to our understanding of appropriate approaches to the development of housing policy among Indigenous communities and among other communities experiencing disproportionate levels of housing need.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 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".