THE SECONDARY SUITES DILEMMA A research paper examining the benefits and issues of illegal basement suites in Calgary and Vancouver. By Mark Germiquet ANTH 379 Tues/Thurs Professor: Dr. Alan Smart Due: December 4th‚ 2012 1. Examine a policy issue in the light of at least one‚ preferably more‚ relevant ethnographic study. Does the ethnographic perspective raise questions about the assumptions in positions proposed on that policy issue? 2. Are there reasons deriving from the ethnographic
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very little pay at all‚ not even enough to sustain a house that was relatively nice. The houses the workers could afford were in the cities and called tenements‚ they were masses of poor people all live together 2-4 families in each tenement in the apartment type building. This led to really bad conditions due to the lack of plumbing and bathrooms in each tournament. So they had to find other means of getting rid of this waste and bathing‚ like bringing gallons and gallons of well water from outside
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having a flatmate degrades that space to a single bedroom‚ since the bathroom‚ kitchen or living room are viewed as mutual. Moreover‚ when living alone‚ leaving valuable things around is acceptable. In contrast‚ this is not the case when sharing the apartment as one does not necessarily trust the housemate. One may even need to secure the bedroom door when going out. Another pronounced difference between living on one’s own and having a partner is the duties. Not sharing the flat means paying for
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exist. PHASE I: Information Gathering/Essay In essay form‚ please provide an in-depth description of your community. Please be sure to include the following in your narrative: Discuss how and where people live - what type of housing (i.e. apartment buildings‚ homes‚ public housing); what the condition of the area is (well kept‚ nicely manicured with gardens‚ grounds to sit in‚ or dirty‚ no community spaces) What types of businesses exist (i.e. grocery stores‚ supermarket‚ clothing stores‚
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ii) The play‚ “Juno and Paycock”‚ by Sean O’ Casey is another comparative text I have studied under the theme of poverty. It is set in the inner city of Dublin during the Irish Civil War. It centres on how does the poverty affect the Boyle family members living in a two-room tenancy in a tenement house at the time of when Dublin had some of the worst slums in Europe. The key moment of the play which draws my attention to the chosen theme is the scene where Juno Boyle told her husband‚ Jack “Captain”
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to people living there‚ because with the low income they were getting it was perfect price to buy. There big rooms were all broken up into small ones‚ and they basically disregarding light and proper ventilation. The rent was lower‚ with small apartments and the actual floor that you were on. The tenements were never really cared for‚ unless the people living in them really took care of them. The people who owned them really didn’t care. "Neatness‚ order‚ cleanliness‚ were never dreamed of in
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In this historical study an analysis of the reformation ideology of the urban slum will be defined through the clearing out of the lower classes in New York City’s Five Points Tenements during the late 19th century. The 19th century “slum” was a negative social and economic development that was based on locating immigrant workers in New York City into low-income tenement projects‚ which was an attempt to accommodate the massive influx of low-cost labor from Europe. The Five Points is an important
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THE NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOMES AGENCY ______________________________________________________________________ 721 Housing Quality Indicators (HQI) Form __________________________________________________________________________________ Version 4 (For NAHP 08-11). Published May 2007 Updated April 2008 721 HQIv4 April 2008 Revisions to this edition: This HQI update builds on HQI version 4 in that it is revised to address areas of ambiguity which have been identified by the Housing Corporation and
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Maria I. Madrigal Mr. Barile English 1A 27 February 2013 The Home Where I Grew Up Situated in front of a dirt road‚ across from and empty lot that had a river running by it‚ was my childhood home. I grew up in this home alongside my mother‚ four sisters‚ and two brothers. I can remember every corner of the house as if it was yesterday that I lived there. The house is located in Michoacán Mexico‚ in a small town in the mountains called Coalcoman. The town was so small that everyone knew each
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Lindsay Caldwell February 19‚ 2013 U.S. History‚ 11 Mrs. Shifflett Problems the Children Faced The book “How the Other Half Lives” by Jacob Riis focuses on how people of other races or poor lived their lives in tenement houses. The most disturbing of all examples are the children and the problems they faced. In chapters 15‚ 16‚ 17‚ and 20 of “How the Other Half Lives” describes how children slept on the streets‚ had no homes or heat‚ and in a lot of cases‚ died
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