Société d'Habitation du Québec

LA COOPÉRATIVE D’HABITATION À CAPITALISATION INDIVIDUELLE : RETOUR SUR LES VOIES DE SON ACCOMPLISSEMENT EN DROIT CIVIL QUÉBÉCOIS. Un article de la revue Revue du notariat (Volume 114, numéro 3, décembre 2012, p. 379-582) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Les silos d’information peuvent être considérés comme un frein autant qu’un levier à l’accessibilité. Dans le cas du Cirque du Soleil, présenté ici par Marie-Claire Dufresne et Evelyne Gratton, le roulement de personnel ainsi que le manque de suivi et des habitudes de partage d’information ont causé la création de nombreux silos qui devinrent un problème de communication de l’information au sein de l’entreprise. Cet article expose la stratégie employée dans le développement d’un outil de gestion électronique des documents, projet mené par l’équipe de gestion documentaire, afin de répondre aux besoins en termes de partage d’information et de suivi des versions. Ce projet devait tenir compte du contexte particulier du Cirque du Soleil, de ses nombreux spectacles et utilisateurs situés sur plusieurs continents et du grand nombre de documents produits. Le déploiement s’est déroulé sur plusieurs mois et a exécuté un processus de consultation auprès des différents secteurs suivi de conception de prototypes. L’approche par unité sectorielle a été privilégiée afin que l’outil rencontre leurs besoins. Les auteures présentent, en guise d’exemple, le processus au sein des Ateliers de costumes. La gestion de l’information et l’implantation de solutions qui prennent en compte le contexte de sa création permettent d’éviter les silos tout en amenuisant leurs désavantages. La mise en place de telles solutions soutient la cohérence et la concertation au sein de l’entreprise, même dans un cas aussi particulier qu’est le Cirque du Soleil.

ABSTRACT This book provides a summary of the various possibilities available on the American market to house the elderly: 13 major solutions are put forth, ranging from a retirement community, to inverted mortgages to social housing, all analysed in great detail. The 11 chapters, which include the proposed housing solutions, are all divided in the same manner: presentation of the solution, general characteristics, clients reached, principal advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, after some time, this type of chapter construction serves to reduce your interest in reading the book. However, the author does prove that he took great pains in classifying housing solutions and in searching for pertinent documentation. This work should help anyone who is not familiar with this subject to take stock of the situation. Nevertheless, it does not offer any perspective for the future, since the author endeavours to give prominence to the main inconveniences of the proposed solutions, thus offsetting the few known advantages of the latter. In the end, you find yourself wondering what can actually be done and suggested to this clientele, since unfortunately nothing substantial has been proposed.

<p>This paper hopes to fill in the literature and knowledge gap on recent conditions and trends within the public housing sector in Canada. To narrow the focus, two things were done. The public housing agencies of Toronto (Toronto Community Housing Corporation) and Montréal (Office municipal d’habitation de Montréal) were chosen as case studies. Then, a review literature review of recent publications was used to identify three major trends in the wider social housing sector: increasing residualization, financial precarity, and dilapidation. The research looks at how these agencies fit (or do not fit) these trends identified. Agency and municipal publications, interviews, and e-mail correspondences were utilized to spearhead conclusions. It was discovered that the TCHC and OMHM fit into these trends, although recent</p> <p>funding commitments have created change, at least in the short term. Various recommendations, from careful social mixing strategies to a dedicated municipal tax, were discussed as potential ways to address these issues. This research may help guide public and social housing policy and research for other jurisdictions, as well as in future region- and systems-wide reviews of public and social housing in Ontario and Québec.</p>

ABSTRACT This book reports on a survey conducted in Chicago, in 1988, among homeless seniors and elderly whose housing situations were considered to be precarious. The first part of this work establishes the socio-economic context which resulted in the development of this problem among the homeless, while the second part deals with the results of the survey and the third tackles the problem of the gradual disappearance of affordable housing – e.g., the single-room occupancy (S.R.O.) hotel. Through this book we learn that the decrease in the number of affordable housing units, such as public housing, during the '80s plays a central role in the emergence of the phenomenon of homelessness among the elderly. It should be remembered that Canada became partly familiar with this situation as of January 1994, with the removal of federal funding for the construction of new social-housing units. In addition, the results of the survey informs us that homeless seniors are often without shelter on a temporary basis. This can be attributed to specific episodes in their lives resulting primarily from situations like an eviction, a fire in a previous dwelling, loss of social support or a sudden decrease in revenue (robbery, loss of a spouse). Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly is a simple book that sheds light on a fringe phenomenon which, as yet, is not well-known.

<p>This paper hopes to fill in the literature and knowledge gap on recent conditions and trends within the public housing sector in Canada. To narrow the focus, two things were done. The public housing agencies of Toronto (Toronto Community Housing Corporation) and Montréal (Office municipal d’habitation de Montréal) were chosen as case studies. Then, a review literature review of recent publications was used to identify three major trends in the wider social housing sector: increasing residualization, financial precarity, and dilapidation. The research looks at how these agencies fit (or do not fit) these trends identified. Agency and municipal publications, interviews, and e-mail correspondences were utilized to spearhead conclusions. It was discovered that the TCHC and OMHM fit into these trends, although recent</p> <p>funding commitments have created change, at least in the short term. Various recommendations, from careful social mixing strategies to a dedicated municipal tax, were discussed as potential ways to address these issues. This research may help guide public and social housing policy and research for other jurisdictions, as well as in future region- and systems-wide reviews of public and social housing in Ontario and Québec.</p>

This book is based on design and research spanning approximately ten years.The conception and design of the Grow Home were a collaborative effort with Witold Rybczynski.The development of the demonstration unit also involved the architect Susan Ross.In the following years, I worked closely with Vince Cammalleri with whom I co-authored several papers on which some of the chapters in this book are based.There were other participants in the research and in the organizations which funded it.I would like

T his book is the outcome of a two-decade-long investigation into design flexibility in urban environments and housing.The second of these two decades, when I served as director of the A ffordable Homes Program at the McGill School of Architecture, has been devoted to theoretical and practical experimentation.The housing design studio that I teach has provided me with an opportunity to reflect on these ideas.