Rethinking Canada’s Housing Affordability Challenge: A discussion paper prepared for the Government of Canada’s Canadian Housing Framework Initiative
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Abstract
The inability of Canada’s housing system to house all its people suggests that there is something structurally wrong with the way we have organized part of our housing system. It should work for all households, but it does not. The problem is an unintended consequence of our established laws, institutions, and social practices. Over the past two decades, the public and private actors in the system have increasingly left more and more people without housing. Homeless-making processes are now a part of Canada’s housing and social welfare systems. We need to design our institutions so that all Canadians have access to necessities such as adequate housing at a price they can afford. To do so is a public policy choice. The social and political system clearly privileges ownership housing and house owners. Canada needs to complete its housing system by creating an adequate system of supports for households that do not have and never will have a place in the housing market. The gap between rich and poor will persist for a long time to come. Without supportive public policies and subsidies, Canada will never have enough market rental housing for households that cannot pay the economic cost of that housing. Five types of programs are needed. First, capital subsidies are required to build new units. Second, rent supplements can make housing affordable for very low-income households by filling the gap between the renter’s ability to pay and the rent level. The other three types of programs address the needs of people requiring supportive housing, the rehabilitation of aging housing, and assistance for people who are homeless. None of the five strategies is new or untested. Most were part of the 1973 changes in federal housing policy. Most were explicitly discussed and recommended in the 1990 Liberal Party Task Force report on housing. A sustainable housing policy must be one that attempts to move in the direction of creating a socially just housing system.
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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 | 0.013 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.055 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.023 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.038 | 0.029 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.001 |
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".