The Housing Circumstances Of Recently Arrived Refugees:The Winnipeg Experience
by: Dr. Tom Carter, Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Adaptation, University of Winnipeg Chesya Polevychok, Anita Friesen and John Osborne (July 2008 for Prairie Metropolis)
Housing is a central component of the settlement experience of refugees. A positive housing situation can facilitate many aspects of integration. Unaffordable, crowded, unsafe housing, however, can cause disruptions in the entire settlement process.

A two-year study of recently arrived refugees in the city of Winnipeg illustrates the significant housing challenges they face. In the first year 75 households who had been in the city a year or less were interviewed. Fifty-five of these households were re-interviewed a year later. The research findings highlight the housing and neighbourhood challenges the households faced in the first year and the changes in their circumstances that had occurred by the time interviews were conducted in the second year.

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