Beyond Shelter: A Study of National Housing Act Financed Housing for the ElderlyStudy to reveal information about the housing that has been built for Canadian senior citizens in the last two decades. Study is confined to housing financed by CMHC under the National Housing Act. It mainly covers perceptions of those who built and operate the accomodation, and the availability and use of social facilities and services. |
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ACCOMMODATION TYPE Accueil activities Alberta apartment Atlantic Provinces British Columbia building built Canada cent of developments cent of hostel cent of self-contained CMHC downtown dwelling units facilities Finnish-Canadian floor friends groups guaranteed income supplement high-rise hostel accommodation hostel and mixed hostel beds hostel developments hostel residents hostel rooms Housing Corporation indicates lawn games less living located lounge managers Manitoba married couples ments Metropolitan Toronto mixed developments municipal National Housing Act needs neighborhood NHA financed NHA section non-profit developments non-profit housing non-profit sponsors Nova Scotia nursing Ontario participation persons physical incapacities Prince Edward Island problems programs proportion of residents public housing developments PUBLIC HOUSING NON-PROFIT recreation room rent residential residents interviewed responsibility sample Saskatchewan self-contained accommodation self-contained developments SELF-CONTAINED HOSTEL MIXED senior citizens centre senior citizens housing seriously limited ability service clubs small towns social services SPONSOR TYPE staff Table tenants visiting