Talk:Affordable housing in Canada

Copyright
This article uses material from http://oceanflynn.wordpress.com/2011/05/ which states (at the top of that page) that re-use is permitted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA). – Fayenatic  L ondon 07:03, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Further re-writing
I have further worked on the restored article as the CC-BY-SA license on the blog did not solve all the problems. There was still close paraphrasing (virtually verbatim) from at least two sources besides the blog which I have either removed or rewritten:
 * from here
 * from here

I also shortened the quote from here, as it exceeded the limits of fair-use quotation and properly attributed it.

I strongly suggest that editors working on this article read WP:Close paraphrasing very carefully and take this issue on board. Changing one or two words around or leaving a few out still constitutes a copyright violation. You must create original material, not copy the phrasing and structure from another source. Then go through the article again, comparing the sentences/passages to the cited source and make sure that it has not been closely paraphrased. Voceditenore (talk) 09:15, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Further re-writing, edits, updates
Human errors of omission (unintentional) were made, dead urls were resuscitated, and other corrections and improvements were made for which I am grateful. Real life interrupts wiki editing and prevents us all from spending as much time as we would like improving articles. I appreciate the fine work of other volunteers and ask only that wikipedia nurtures an environment of good will and mutual respect.

There are a lot of detailed reliable references provided here on this challenging and current topic. I have invested much energy and effort on the topic, including work recently done to create links leading to the article and to add the most recent data with references, but I acknowledge that it is in no way a complete article. Although it has some merit there is much work to be done to improve it.

In case this article is deleted, I have moved a copy to my sandbox so I will not lose the valuable content. oceanflynn 22:31, 15 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oceanflynn (talk • contribs)

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False Claim: Canada's Place Internationally
Hi everyone, The first paragraph currently ends with: "Canada is considered to be among the more affordable places to live, using market-oriented analyses of affordability according to a 2012 Royal Bank of Canada report." I thought this was a very unusual statement, especially since the cost of a single room in a small Ontario town is about the same cost as a two bedroom apartment in Milan (read: extremely overpriced). I read the article cited and the closest thing I could find to support this claim was "Homeownership in Alberta is among the more affordable in Canada". Not the same thing. Given the incendiary effect this statement will have on many, I have deleted the statement, rather than suggesting its removal. I welcome further discussion on this.LemonShackles (talk) 09:10, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Dubious, unverified statement
Hello, The following statement from the sixth paragraph of the (overly-lengthy) introduction is not only inaccurate, but obviously (at least based on the lack of citations, let alone research pointing to the perfect opposite) unsubstantiated: "Prior to the 1980s, Canada did not have a homelessness problem." Kinnery (talk) 03:44, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Poverty in Canada
I wrote similar/the same summaries from these RS in the final paragraph of section "Affordable housing for First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities" article Poverty in Canada.Oceanflynn (talk) 23:59, 10 August 2022 (UTC)