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Research in the North
In February 2012, Nick Falvo travelled to Ross River, Yukon, to meet various community leaders, including several members of Council. He spoke to people about affordable housing, social assistance and food security. Nick is currently writing a policy report on poverty reduction and affordable housing in Yukon, under the supervision of Dr. Frances Abele. Funding for the February trip was provided by the Yukon College's Northern Research Endowment Fund.
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New Research on the Federal Government's Northern Strategy and Government-Assisted Housing in the Northwest Territories
In November 2011, at a public event in Yellowknife, Frances Abele and Nick Falvo released new research on the federal government's northern strategy and government-assisted housing in the Northwest Territories respectively. Copies of the 2011-2012 edition of How Ottawa Spends, which contains the research, can be purchased online from McGill-Queen's University Press.
Please click here to access the plain language summary of Use it or Lose It: The Conservatives’ Northern Development Strategy
by Frances Abele.
Please click here to access the plain language summary of Government-Assisted Housing in the Northwest Territories and the Role of the Federal Government by Nick Falvo
Nick Falvo's complete chapter can be accessed here.
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3ci Team to Attend SERNNoCa’s Northern Summit on the Social Economy
The Social Economy and Research Network of Northern Canada (SERNNoCa) will hold its final summit meeting in Yellowknife on November 21-23, 2011. The summit will involve northern community activists, researchers and teachers, as well as researchers from the rest of Canada. Among the presenters and panel discussants are 3ci’s Academic Director Frances Abele, and 3ci researchers Nick Falvo, Joshua Gladstone, Sheena Kennedy and Jerald Sabin.
Frances Abele is the director of The State and the Social Economy in the North research theme, one of the four research themes guiding SERNNoCa’s work. She will present an overview of the findings of research in this theme. Nick Falvo will present on Housing and Being Homeless in Yellowknife. Joshua Gladstone will cover Northern Economic Development and the Social Economy: Public Policy Questions for Nunavut. Sheena Kennedy will discuss The Igloolik Socio-Economic Baseline Study (2009-2010). Jerald Sabin will present twice, on different aspects of the social economy in Yellowknife.
To learn more about SERNNoCa and the Yellowknife summit, please click here.
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New Research on the Federal Government's Northern Strategy and Government-Assisted Housing in the Northwest Territories
In November 2011, at a public event in Yellowknife, Nick Falvo released new research on government-assisted housing in the Northwest Territories respectively. Copies of the 2011-2012 edition of How Ottawa Spends, which contains the research, can be purchased online from McGill-Queen's University Press.
Please click here to access the plain language summary of Government-Assisted Housing in the Northwest Territories and the Role of the Federal Government by Nick Falvo
Nick Falvo's complete chapter can be accessed here.
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Homelessness and Affordable Housing in the NWT
Research Assistant Nick Falvo presented at the 9th ACUNS International Student Conference on Northern Studies and Polar Regions. The conference took place at Yukon College, in Whitehorse, Yukon (Oct 2-5, 2009). 
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Nick Falvo Presents at the 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association
3ci Researcher Nick Falvo recently presented a paper on the Great Recession's impact on homelessness, at the 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (May 28-30, Quebec City). Please click here to access the paper.
Nick Falvo Presents Homelessness and Affordable Housing In the NWT to the Yellowknife Rotary Club
On Thursday, February 18, Nick Falvo was invited to make a presentation on his research to the Yellowknife Rotary Club. The presentation was very well-received. Following the presentation, Nick received multiple requests for meetings from interested Rotary members.
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CPRN policy paper
Streets to Homes
Nick recently participated in the Housing Internship and Scholar Program. Jointly sponsored by the Canadian Policy Research Networks and the Social Housing Services Corporation, it is the only housing-specific training program for young scholars in Canada. While participating in the program, Nick wrote a policy paper on Toronto's world famous Streets to Homes program. Click on the cover page below to read the document.
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