Bent Nail Tool Co-operative : using community assets to improve neighbourhoods and access affordable housing : document report / submitted to Homegrown Solutions ; submitted by Quint Development Corporation.: NH18-1/398-1999E-PDF

"The Bent Nail Tool Co-operative is one component of a broader strategy aimed at revitalizing five older neighbourhoods in the core area of Saskatoon. These areas have suffered from high concentrations of poverty and experienced physical and social decline. Yet the neighbourhoods also offer many opportunities with assets including both the existing urban infrastructure and human capital. The broader strategy encompasses a full range of community development activities and has focused on the existing housing assets as a key component. An assisted home ownership model has been developed to facilitate home ownership and stabilize a neighbourhood currently undermined by a high proportion of renters and high mobility. The component funded, in part, by Homegrown Solutions provided support to this process by building rehabilitation and maintenance skills and providing access to the tools necessary to undertake a self-help process of revitalization"--Executive summary, p. [3] of cov.

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Department/Agency Homegrown Solutions (Program)
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Title Bent Nail Tool Co-operative : using community assets to improve neighbourhoods and access affordable housing : document report / submitted to Homegrown Solutions ; submitted by Quint Development Corporation.
Variant title Using community assets to improve neighbourhoods and access affordable housing : document report
Series title Research report
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Bent Nail Tool Co-operative : utiliser les actifs de la collectivité afin d'améliorer les quartiers et de donner l'accès à des logements abordables : rapport documentaire.
"March 1999."
"File #97-04."
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1999, c1998.
Description 7, [2] p.
Catalogue number
  • NH18-1/398-1999E-PDF
Subject terms Housing
Cooperatives
Community development
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