GRTs in Quebec: a unique model for non-profit housing delivery: The documentation of Group of Technical Resources (GRT) Model in Quebec, exploring the adaption of the third sector social affordable housing delivery model in housing policy transition
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Abstract
"Technical Resource Groups (Groupes de Ressources techniques, hereafter GRT) model in Quebec presents a way to help the housing crisis through the third sector. In the past decades, this unique housing intermediary-organization system has successfully provided affordable units to the public and created housing cooperatives with self-governance autonomy. With the public sector’s support, GRTs have completed considerable amounts of third sector-led social affordable housing projects. However, governmental resources are not always present because of the shifting housing policy. Now, the model is facing new challenges. GRTs emerged in the 1960s and 70s along with all other social movements. Activists of architects and urban planners came together and fought for housing rights for the local community. The civil social organizations, includes the GRTs became more important as the growth in their professionalism and recognition by the provincial government. The community-based groups were institutionalized, entering sub-contracting relationships with the provincial government (Henaway et al., 2021, p. 34), and their service was formalized into the government’s program. With the secured funding resources from the Quebec government, GRTs have involved in more than half of the community housing creation in the province through new construction of mid-rise multi-unit buildings and renovation of existing community housing. However, the successful model is now under threat due to the withdrawal of the AccèsLogis program, the main provincial housing program which delegates most resources to the third sector housing sector, by the current provincial government. Whether the GRT model can still work and deliver sufficient social affordable housing has been questioned. Currently, GRTs are exploring new paths and stable models for the development of decommodified housing which entails the organizational transformation, new financial strategies, and diversification of services. This research project conducts interviews with professionals involved in the GRT system and contextualize the transitional moment in the Canadian context. The objective is to document the model and process of housing production of the GRTs, which are not well known outside Quebec, with the hope for an alternative response to housing crisis derived from the result. This research documents the GRT model, the institutionalized resource group system in the third sector housing development in Quebec. It begins with a brief overview of the history and types of nonequity housing in Canada and how it is continued in Quebec. The finding section details the current GRT model, the challenge, and how they answer the challenge with the comparison with the non-profit developers outside Quebec based on the data collected through the eight in-depth interviews with the stakeholders in the model. The report concludes with discussions about the challenge and future of the resource group system derived from the third sector housing development model."@eng
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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.
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