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Demanding the Right to the City and the Right to Housing (R2C/R2H): Best Practices for Supporting Community Organizing

Organization: 
Parkdale Community Legal Services
Author: 
Martine August & Cole Webber

This research report explores how progressive social agencies and non-profits (including legal clinics) can support community organizing pursuing the aims of the Right to the City (R2C) and Right to Housing (R2H) agendas. R2C/R2H theories and movements seek transformative social change to achieve urban social justice, emphasizing that cities and housing should be built for people, and not for profit.

Year: 
2020
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Community ownership
Housing & Real Estate
Source: 
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Downtown Eastside 2019 Social Enterprise Impact Report

Organization: 
Buy Social Canada

WHEN MILTON FRIEDMAN SAID, “There is one and only one social responsibility of business– to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits …” he could not have been more wrong when it comes to social enterprise business models in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES).

Year: 
2019
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Local economy
Planning and Evaluation
Research & Development
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
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Connecting Local People to the Prosperity of Place: Workforce Development Meets Industrial Revitalization

Organization: 
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Author: 
Patricia Voltolini and David Greenberg

Connecting Local People to the Prosperity of Place cover

Year: 
2019
Format: 
Research report
Case study
Categories: 
Job Training
Local economy
Poverty Reduction
Social Justice
Source: 
Weblink

Community Benefits Agreements: Empowering Communities To Maximize Returns on Public Infrastructure Investments

Organization: 
The Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD)
Author: 
Armine Yalnizyan

Community Benefits Agreements: Empowering Communities To Maximize Returns on Public Infrastructure InvestmentsThe Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD) is a Canadian think-tank sitting at the nexus of public finance and state institutions.

Year: 
2017
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Government
Policy Development & Advocacy
Source: 
Weblink
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A Black Epistemology for the Social and Solidarity Economy: The Black Social Economy

Author: 
Caroline Shenaz Hossein

Abstract 

A black epistemology for the social and solidarity economyA Black epistemology in economics is needed to bring ethics back into business.

Year: 
2019
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Racialized Groups
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Source: 
Weblink
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