00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.847713 CaOODSP 20221107153513 cr ||||||||||| 180322s1993 oncd||||o f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- NH15-755/1993E-PDF Kitchen, Harry M. Trends in municipal finance [electronic resource] : final report / by Harry M. Kitchen and Enid Slack. [Ottawa] : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1993. [161] p. (various pagings) : charts "Submitted to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; File Number 6600-30; June 1993." Digitized edition from print [produced by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation]. Includes bibliographic references. "This study reviews historical trends in municipal finance in Canada to determine if there is any validity to two hypotheses that have been put forward to explain the deterioration of urban infrastructure: Municipalities have been devoting an increasing portion of their budgets to expenditures on "soft" services (education, health and social services). This means that expenditures on "soft" services have crowded out expenditures on "hard" services (roads, water and sewers). Municipalities do not have appropriate revenues to make the required expenditures on "hard" services: transfers from other levels of government have fallen, there is pressure to keep property taxes down and municipalities do not want to increase their debt burden"--Abstract. gccst Finance gccst Local governments Slack, N. E. (Naomi Enid), 1951- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. PDF 2.38 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/schl-cmhc/nh15/NH15-755-1993-eng.pdf