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Reducing Violence by Enhancing Human and Social Development: a 40 -Year Plan for Waterloo Region - (72 KB PDF file)
This report has been provided as a draft to the Community Safety & Crime Prevention Council of the Region of Waterloo who owns it. A final report based on further deliberations and consultations will be forthcoming later in 2006. Comments, questions, and enquiries about the draft report and next steps should be directed to the CS&CPC, attention: Christiane Sadeler (schris@region.waterloo.on.ca) and/or watch the CS&CPC website (http://www.preventingcrime.net) for future community processes. The report comprises a draft that has been accepted in principle only by the CS&CPC but does not reflect the final views of the CS&CPC or the Region of Waterloo.

Capacity Building in Arts, Culture, and Heritage Organizations: Knowledge from the Field - (1.5Mb PDF File)

The Donor's Guide to Canadian Charities - (376K PDF File)
A simple guide to becoming an effective donor, including tips on sorting out the good organization from the good pitch.

Working Together: Maximizing the Impact of Community Services - (390K PDF File)
A survey and analysis of best practices in community collaboration from across the United States and Canada, with suggestions for implementing successful community collaboration.

The Effective Donor's Brochure - (25K PDF File)
A two-sided brochure for your clients covering donations planning and dealing with direct mail, phone, and door-to-door donations requests.

Resources On Homelessness and Affordable Housing

A Homebuilders Policy View on Inclusionary Zoning

Aboriginal Peoples and Homelessness: Literature Review

Accessory Apartments: Characteristics, Issues, and Opportunities - (712K PDF File)

Affordable Housing Policies

Affordable Housing Techniques

Affordable Rental Housing Supply - (112K PDF File)

Alternate Tenure Arrangements - (104K PDF File)

Arguments Against Inclusionary Zoning You Can Anticipate Hearing

Bibliography on Homelessness: Canada A-G

Bibliography on Homelessness: Canada G-W

Bibliography on Homelessness: Children and Youth

Bibliography on Homelessness: Homeless Women

Bibliography on Homelessness: Periodicals

Bibliography on Youth and Housing - (112K PDF File)

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Building Partnerships with Local Government

Building Solutions to Homelessness

Canadian Family Income 1999 - (120k PDF File)

Canadian Housing Conditions - (192k PDF File)

Community Plan on Homelessness in London - (584k PDF File)

Demographic Changes and Real Housing Prices in Canada - (96k PDF File)

Documentation of Best Practices Addressing Homelessness - (608k PDF File)

Emerging Solutions - (840k PDF File)

Estimating Homelessness

Federation of Canadian Municipalities:
A National Affordable Housing Strategy
- (176k PDF File)

Homelessness and Health - (80k PDF File)

Homelessness: Parliamentary Research Branch

Homelessness: Responding to the Hard to House

Housing Affordability: A Children's Issue - (328k PDF File)

Housing Canada's Children - (200k PDF File)

Housing Canada's Youth - (176k PDF File)

Housing Conditions in Canadian Metropolitan Areas - (168k PDF File)

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Housing Policy Options for Women Living in Urban Poverty - (728k PDF File)

Housing Subsidies Can Help Long Term Welfare Recipients - (40k PDF File)

Housing Trust Funds in Canada - (144k PDF File)

Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 2000 - (296k PDF File)

Impact of Changes in Housing Finance on Older Urban Areas - (136k PDF File)

Impact of Non-Market Housing on Property Values

Inclusionary Zoning

Inclusionary Zoning and Affordable Housing

Inclusionary Zoning: The Developers Perspective

Inventory of Projects and Programs Addressing Homelessness

Local Responses to Homelessness - (8.2MB PDF File)

Low Income Trends in the 1990s

Municipal Planning for Affordable Housing - (96k PDF File)

Municipal Regulatory Initiatives: Providing for Affordable Housing - (96k PDF File)

National Housing Research Committee, Fall 2000 - (232k PDF File)

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No Room of Her own: A Literature Review on Women and Homelessness - (232k PDF File)

Ontario Roundtable on Best Practices Addressing Homelessness

Ontario Social Housing Business Transfer: Non-Profit and Co-Op Providers - (1.2MB PDF File)

Philanthropic Support for Affordable Housing - (112k PDF File)

Physical Housing Conditions and the Well-Being of Children

Policy Considerations: IDAs

Prevention of Homelessness Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness

Profile and Policy Review of Homelessness in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta - (344k PDF File)

Profile Policy Review, and Analysis of Homelessness in British Columbia - (704k PDF File)

Property Values Unaffected by Non-Market Housing

Relationship Between Homelessness and Health and Social Services - (272k PDF File)

Removing Barriers to the Development of Affordable Housing

Removing Barriers to the Development of Affordable Housing

Research Counters NIMBY

Survey of Canadians' Attitudes Towards Homelessness

Taking Responsibility for Homelessness: An Action Plan for Toronto - (1.4MB PDF File)

The Administration of Individual Development Accounts

The Community Action Plan in Hamilton-Wentworth - (280k PDF File)

The Condition of Canada's Housing Stock - (392k PDF File)

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The Costs of Homelessness in British Columbia - (408k PDF File)

The Government of Canada's Homelessness Initiative - (64k PDF File)

The Impact of Supportive Housing For Homeless People With Severe MI - (176k PDF File)

The Incidence and Depth of Child Poverty

The Municipal Role in Meeting Ontario's Housing Needs:
Environmental Scan
- (232k PDF File)

The Municipal Role in Meeting Ontario's Housing Needs: Handbook - (224k PDF File)

The Progress of Canada's Children 2001: Highlights

The Progress of Canada's Children 2001: Summary

The Rental Housing Problem in Ontario and What to Do About It - (280k PDF File)

The Role of Public-Private Partnerships In Producing Affordable Housing - (152k PDF File)

The Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness

Three Studies on Municipal Infrastructure - (56k PDF File)

Understanding Private Rental Housing Investment in Canada - (368k PDF File)

What Are IDAs

What is the Illinois Affordable Housing Trust Fund?

What We Know About the Effects of Asset Holding

Why Are People Homeless?

Women on the Rough Edge: A Decade of Change for Homeless Women - (120k PDF File)

Working Group on Homelessness Meeting Summary

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