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- Title
FAILURE BY DESIGN: THE ON-RESERVE FIRST NATIONS' HOUSING CRISIS AND ITS ROOTS IN CANADIAN EVALUATION FRAMEWORKS.
- Authors
McCartney, Shelagh; Herskovits, Jeffrey; Hintelmann, Lara
- Abstract
This paper aims to illustrate how housing crises have been identified across Mid-Canada Corridor First Nations, that depending on the methodology used to identify the crisis conflicting understandings of the crisis occurs across stakeholders. This paper outlines the history of housing evaluation in Canada both on and off reserve to demonstrate the ways in which evaluation and subsequently linked policies and programs have relied on few market-driven metrics to justify state intervention. Using the theoretical framework of frontier, and contrasting this approach with Indigenous understandings of interrelationships between housing, culture and self-determination, these conflicts are exposed. To demonstrate evaluation's role in ongoing intervention existing housing methodology is traced to demonstrate its assimilationist colonial roots, concerned not with improving occupant lived experience but instead justifying the ongoing implementation of Western housing models on reserve.
- Subjects
CANADA; ABORIGINAL Canadians; HOUSING; HOUSING policy; RIGHT to self-determination; DECOLONIZATION
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
0715-3244
- Publication type
Article