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Housing Policy

2025· book-chapter· en· W4411583565 on OpenAlexaffabout
Greg Suttor

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHousing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusiness

Abstract

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Abstract Housing, with large impacts on social well-being and inequality, is necessarily a concern of social policy. Canadian housing policy and spending expanded from the 1940s to the 1970s, with profound retrenchment in the 1990s, and some re-engagement since then. It has included programs for homeownership, rental supply, social housing, housing benefits, tenant rights, supportive housing, housing repair, and other matters. The phases of policy evolution have notable correspondences to evolving Canadian social policy and to international housing policy trends. Housing is very intergovernmental in Canada, reflecting this country’s federal system. The federal level has led to major expansion and retrenchment over time, and its policy fundamentally structures the housing system; the role of provincial governments has expanded over time, with much diversity among them; social housing is a joint sphere; municipalities and Indigenous entities play rising roles. Canada is mid-range among affluent countries in the systemic scale of social housing, and relatively low spending on housing. Post-2000 challenges include very high rental and ownership costs, shortfalls in rental supply, and rising low-income housing need—the latter disproportionately affecting various racialized groups. Recent policy trends include renewed priority to affordable rental production, and increased attention to housing benefits, Indigenous housing, housing for people who are homeless, support to vulnerable tenants, and the right to housing. The post-2000 re-engagement has only partly reversed the 1990s retrenchment and has not addressed the severe market pressures of the 2020s.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.249
Threshold uncertainty score0.834

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0040.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2490.072

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.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.169 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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Published2025
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