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发帖数: 5892 | 1 加拿大经济师称，精神疾病，家庭破裂，吸毒，犯罪和暴力等并不是造成加拿大人无家可归的最主要因素。
卑诗省西蒙弗雷泽大学(Simon Fraser University，简称SFU)经济学教授Krishna Pendakur称，人们无家可归的原因很直接但常常被忽略，那就是低收入和高房租。“精神疾病，犯罪，婚姻破裂，毒品犯罪等是造成人们无家可归的因素，但这些因素对生活在高房租地区的穷人影响力更大。”
Pendakur说，加拿大在这一方面的调查很少，但是美国有研究表明，收入和房屋可承担性之间的关系对各城市的流浪问题都有极大的影响力。
Pendakur指出，在过去20年来，加拿大一直是一个在健康上支出较大的国家，重点放在了毒瘾、精神病，以及家庭问题等方面。这带来的积极一面是，政府通过拨款或提供更多社会福利等可以相对较容易地提高弱势群体的收入。而消极的一面是，加拿大政府错过了在过去几年增加可承担住房数量的绝好机会。
但是，如今的经济危机可谓是给弱势群体提供了一线意外的希望。
加拿大房产市场的冷却使有足够收入的租客摇身变成房主，房屋出租市场的压力将随之减小，最终导致房屋租价下降。Pendakur称， |
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发帖数: 2741 | 2 Heads up, Orange County. Saturday, February 8 is the 29th Annual Asian
Pacific American Awareness Conference at UC Irvine. This year's theme is
LOVE, short for "Listen to Our Voices and Empower." The keynote speakers are
Janani Balasubramanian, Beau Sia, and Sumun Pendakur. Here's some more info:
29th Annual Asian Pacific American Awareness Conference
DATE: February 8, 2014
TIME: 9am-530pm
LOCATION: UCI Student Center
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
**Beau Sia
**Janani Balasubramanian
**Sumun Pendakur
WORKSHO... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2741 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: playadelrey (A smile is a curve gets things straight), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: 29th Annual Asian Pacific American Awareness Conference@ UC Irvine
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 19 19:57:19 2014, 美东)
Heads up, Orange County. Saturday, February 8 is the 29th Annual Asian
Pacific American Awareness Conference at UC Irvine. This year's theme is
LOVE, short for "Listen to Our Voices and Empower." The keynote speakers are
Janani Balasubramanian, Beau Sia, and Sumun Pendakur. Here... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6276 | 4 http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/news-media/publications/ami
The Asian American Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) amicus brief in
support of affirmative action represents 141 Asian American and Pacific
Islander organizations, student groups, and bar associations, as well as, 9
members of academia.
18 Million Rising
After Bruce
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment
American Citizens for Justice/Asian American Center for Justice (ACJ)
American Educational Research Assoc... 阅读全帖 |
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