Themes: Housing

This is one of the Canadian CED Network’s CED in Manitoba Profiles Project produced 50 stories of Manitoba communities working to build fairer and stronger local economies, reduce poverty, and revitalize neighbourhoods From…

When we look at the many needs of low-income communities across the country it’s easy to get stuck in silos—housing or schools, economic development or social services, safer streets or…

From the Foreword by James O. Gibson Washington, DC, is in the forefront of older cities experiencing a resurgence of economic investment and cultural dynamism. The city is a leader…

The Community Land Trust (CLT) Handbook is the complete A – Z of how to start, build and run a CLT project, from the first idea to the bricks and…

In his new book, CCEDNet founding member Mike Lewis, of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, builds on 35 years of leadership in community economic development, the social economy and…

Challenging traditional notions of development, these essays critically examine bottom-up, community economic development strategies in a wide variety of contexts: as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and…

Prepared by Nicole Chaland (CCEDNet) and Lorenzo Magzul of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network for the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association Within a CED approach, housing initiatives can strengthen…

This reader is an early project of the B.C. – Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). Sharing key readings relevant to BALTA’s central research questions was viewed as an efficient…

Communities Under Pressure: the Role of Co-operatives and the Social Economy brought together policy makers, researchers, and prac- titioners to explore the experiences of an important component of the social…

This report draws together information from all of the research projects conducted as part of the Manitoba Research Alliance on Community Economic Development in the New Economy. It includes sections…

Under One Roof is a case study of an innovative and alternative model of community economic development, one quite at odds with the conventional “export/free market model” of CED. Using…

Winnipeg is forced to address the problem of inner-city decline with fewer financial and program resources than are available in larger cities. This report examines the processes of housing production…