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Ratios of Affordable or the Housing/program side? 6
3. What tools are available to our
Housing housing branch to deal with
these questions through their
policy?
Recommendation:
4. What would the process be to
That the March 10, 2009, Planning and
move forward on mechanisms
Development Department report
and policies to deal with this
2009PCP013 be received for
issue both on the
information.
Planning/Zoning/regulatory side
Report Summary and the Housing/program side?
This report provides information on Report
low-cost housing. 1. What planning tools are available
Previous Council/Committee Action to address equitable distribution
and disbursement of low cost
• At the April 8, 2009, Executive housing, i.e., maximum
Committee meeting, the March 10, percentages, spatial disbursement
2009, Planning and Development or any other possible tools?
Department report 2009PDP013 was
made debatable and was postponed
• The term “low-cost housing” is a
to the April 22, 2009, Executive
generic term that can include a
Committee meeting.
broad range of market and non-
• At the December 17, 2008, market housing units occupied by
Councillors B. Henderson and households earning less than
J. Batty made the following inquiry: median income. The low-cost
A number of neighbourhoods in the housing that generates the greatest
City of Edmonton are under stress public attention is generally occupied
due to a high ratio of low cost by persons receiving social
housing, both market and non- assistance, income support, or
market. earning less than $25,000 annually.
1. What planning tools are available • Typically this type of housing
to address equitable distribution consists of government subsidized
and disbursement of low-cost housing, including shelters,
housing, i.e., maximum supportive and non-supportive
percentages, spatial accommodation, older private-sector
disbursement or any other apartments, rooming houses, and
possible tools? other rental units.
2. What mechanisms are being
• High proportions of low-cost, private
used by other municipalities
sector housing stock generally exists
across Canada and North
in neighbourhoods which are more
America to deal with this
than 60 years old that were originally
question, i.e., Chicago, Toronto,
developed with modest housing
Calgary and others, either in the
stock, accommodating lower to
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