Community economic development organizations (CDEC-Corporations de developpement économique communautaire) have been active in working class and low-income neighborhoods in Montreal since mid 1980s.

Community level action towards sustainable development has emerged as a key scale of intervention in the effort to address our many serious environmental issues.

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Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have met with varying degrees of success in both Canada and the United States since their introduction as an affordable housing alternative. The goal of this External Research Program projec

Since the early 1980s, the community economic development corporations (CDECs) created by community groups involved in health, housing, welfare and other issues – have become major non-profit associations.

In the 2000s, community advocates spent several years calling for a comprehensive provincial poverty reduction plan that shows Manitobans how far we have come and where the province plans to go in its efforts to reduce poverty and social exclusion.