Editing Public housing (section)

=== Canada ===
{{Main|Public housing in Canada}}
[[File:Moss Park.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Moss Park]] in [[Downtown Toronto]].|alt=]]
[[File:JMhousing.jpg|thumb|250px|{{lang|fr|[[Habitations Jeanne-Mance]]}} in [[Downtown Montreal]].|alt=]]

In Canada, public housing is usually a block of purpose-built [[subsidized housing]] operated by a government agency, often simply referred to as community housing, with easier-to-manage townhouses. Many cities in Canada still maintain large high-rise clustered developments in working-class neighborhoods, a system that has fallen out of favour in both the United States and the United Kingdom. However, many public housing corporations still offer a variety of buildings and communities ranging from individual houses to townhouse communities and mid-rise and high-rise apartments in both working-class and middle-class neighborhoods that house a significant number of low-income Canadians.

Following the decentralisation of public housing to local municipalities, [[Social Housing Services Corporation]] (SHSC) was created in the [[Province of Ontario]] in 2002 to provide group services for social housing providers (public housing, [[non-profit housing]] and [[co-operative housing]]). It is a non-profit corporation which provides Ontario housing providers and service managers with bulk purchasing, insurance, investment and information services that add significant value to their operations.

Recently,{{When|date=February 2020}} there has been a move toward the integration of public housing with market housing and other uses. Revitalization plans for properties such as in the notorious [[Downtown Eastside]] of [[Vancouver]], [[Regent Park]], in Toronto, and Rochester Heights in [[Ottawa]], aim to provide better accommodations for low-income residents, and connect them to the greater community. The aim of the reconstruction plans are often to better integrate it into the traditional grid of streets, improve leisure and cultural amenities. However, the residents of these communities often have had little effective input in the plans and have had mixed reactions to the construction.

In 2014, [[Vancouver]], long considered one of the least affordable cities in the world,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.biv.com/article/2015/1/ho-hum-vancouver-still-second-least-afforda/g | title=Vancouver second-least affordable city in group of nine developed countries for at least fourth straight year | last=O'Brien | first=Frank | date=21 January 2015 | publisher=Business in Vancouver | access-date=15 March 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> changed the definition of social housing to mean rental housing in which a minimum of 30 percent of dwelling units are occupied by households that cannot pay market rents, due to lack of income.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.straight.com/news/412421/city-vancouver-revisits-definition-social-housing | title=City of Vancouver revisits definition of social housing | last=Pablo | first=Carlito | date=18 March 2015 | newspaper=Georgia Straight | access-date=18 March 2015 | archive-date=2 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402164329/http://www.straight.com/news/412421/city-vancouver-revisits-definition-social-housing | url-status=live }}</ref>