Warning: Trying to understand Globalization causes feelings of pessimism, confusion,

optimism, guilt, hopelessness, being overwhelmed, feelings of persecution and

injustic`e, concern for others, a dizzying sense of dominance and power, travel lust, hatred, anger,

fear, insecurity, excitement, hope, depersonalization, time pressure, denial,

escapism, utopian ecstasy, wanting to reverse it, wanting to turn away from it, and wanting to save

the world. The strong feelings make it hard to judge, hard to study, hard to sleep at night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU1IPgOn_L0

5 Simple Lessons from a Complex Student

Lesson 1. Arrive early for presentations, otherwise everything will go

wrong.

(Arif's Law = if you arrive 20 minutes early, it will take 5 minutes to set-up. If you arrive 5 minutes beforehand, it will take 20 minutes!)

The Tao of Globalization

Lecture Disaster Recap

Recession and Stimulus Spending: A Preliminary Examination of StimulusSpending on Affordable Housing in Ontario Canadian Policy ResearchNetworks. Release Date: 18 Jan 2010. Number of pages: 49 DocumentNumber: 52000. See Blog

Post-WWII boom. Non-profit era. Neo-liberal withdrawal.A 4th Story? 1998-2008 advocacy on homelessness Economic crisis

The Three Stories of Housing Policy in Canada

The Three Stories of Housing Policy in Canada

Affordability Available money versus what things cost

(prices) Household affordability problem Public affordability problem

- Eg. the RGI mismatch in Canada’s Affordable Housing Program (AHP)

money prices

Income + savings + creditShelter + living + debts

Revenue + borrowing + printingExpenditures+ debt servicing + inflation

Affordability crisis

People have less money available for housingHousing is more expensive

The Housing System

Tenure – rental and ownershipFinancing – households, banks and publicStock – composition and maintenanceInfrastructure – market, physical, social and community Market – demography, demand, supplyAnd…..Politics – ideas about the role of government and marketsEconomics – employment, money and interest, policy norms, reforms, path dependance

Arguments The problem of affordability in housing

exists along a continuum - public/private and ownership/rental

The economic crisis of 2008 and homelessness had the same policy roots Tenure – ownership subsidized over rental Market – growing unequal Financing – Innovation stretched

'affordability' Stock – decline in rental and social housing,

ownership bubble

And...the CRISPURTUNITY argument (H. Simpson)

Most informants felt that a there will be a significant re-think of the economic model we have been following and the change would be centred around:

-The role of government in relation to markets

The nature of the change would be a move to a more balanced approach...the CRISPURTUNITY

“I’m neither left nor right, I’m just staying home tonight, getting lost in this hopeless

little scream’- L. Cohen, Democracy.

Lesson 1 a) Every good presentation shall quote Leonard Cohen.

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Obligatory link to developing countries

Food prices and the econ crisis

Policy Recommendations Ontario

DEMAND SIDE Match shelter allowances to affordable

housing rents.

This will create competition, choice and sustainability for social and affordable housing and eliminate wait lists and supplements. It will create incentive to curb rent inflation through supply measures. It will mean more sustainable rent revenue for municipal non-profits.

SUPPLY SIDE Work with Feds to restore incentives for

building rental supply in general. Continue with capital grants for non-profit affordable housing.– this will raise vacancy rates to healthy and

curb rent inflation, thus controlling indexed allowance costs.

Implement aggressive repair and green retrofit programs and incentives. – This will create a better margin between

affordable rent and operational costs.

SUPPORT SIDE Increase and diversify community

and housing supports to ensure service for all.

Eliminate disincentives to work for people on OW and ODSP.

Involve tenants in community-building and in maintenance of healthy and safe housing.

This will reduce program spending to mandatory government services and create inclusion - ownership, participation and responsibility from the ground up.

Lesson 2. Your greatest impact in global health

lies in what you do in Canada.

A2K

Lesson 3. Student volunteer community health

work abroad is life-changing.

What I learned from mentors

• Dr. Don and Liz Hillman; MD,FRCP,OC and the rest of the CIHAD team

• Evidence and Ethics-based approach

• Taking initiative

• Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good

• Be student-centred, empowerment

• Community-based practise, empowerment

10 CC’s – Community Capacities

• Cooperation• Communication• Consultation• Coordination• Collaboration• Capacity-building• Culture• Caring • Creativity• Civic Engagement

What I learned from Students

We must imagine reality in order to understand it, but reality is rarely how we

imagined it

Professional impacts

Personal impacts

Advocacy

Evocacy – reality on the ground

Lesson 4.

'If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come

because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us walk together'.

Lila Watson - Aboriginal philosopher

Lesson 5. These are interesting times. Don't waste,

don't rush.

Youtube - A world of communication

Time is up ):

“I hope you have enjoyed following along on my journey. It has been life changing and I see things differently now. I have a greater appreciation for life and for what I have in my life. It has been an experience I will never forget about. The land, the people, the animals, the sites - always remain in my heart.”

- June 23rd, 2005 -Time is up, but work will still continue. Heather’s

blog,Kenya