Sentences with phrase «inadequate housing»

Children living in inadequate housing with problems such as mold and insects might miss school because they are chronically sick.

Often, for newcomer refugees, mental health will not be their primary concern because they might struggle with inadequate housing, unemployment, transportation issues, language difficulties, and so on.

Housing advocates estimate that 1.5 million Canadian households have seriously inadequate housing.

We need to ask why people were living in cramped poverty in inadequate housing on this vulnerable island?

We know that can range from inaccessible transport, perceptions of disabled people and their capabilities, lack of training or formal qualifications and even inadequate housing.

Community development in these communities is systematically blocked by inadequate housing and infrastructure.

A rabbit living alone in inadequate housing will become bored, lonely and may become aggressive.

«The issue now is pent - up demand and strong growth in the number of households, with buyer traffic 29 percent above a year ago, coinciding with several years of inadequate housing construction.

About 36 percent of children lived in households that experience one or more housing problems, such as physically inadequate housing, overcrowded housing, or housing that cost more than 30 percent of household income.

Poverty and inadequate housing also get in the way.

Tourism officials acknowledge the problems plaguing tourist towns: low wages, inadequate housing for workers and increased crime, problems that recently prompted the Tourism Secretariat to announce plans to improve housing for tourism workers.

They note, for example, that tax credits for homeowners totaled $ 93 billion in 2000, while subsidies for those with inadequate housing reached only $ 29 billion and were insufficient to meet needs.

This gives us tasty (although overpriced) strawberries in August, but it also packs B.C. families into inadequate housing or, worse, sends them away to cities with more sensible policies.

Anthony notes that «We do have a huge problem here in the UK as I am sure elsewhere, of totally inadequate housing provision for the younger generation, and so increasing compaction of living spaces.»

Admitted to the bar of Ontario in 2010 and New York in 2015, Ben's record of research, advocacy and activism on issues arising from inadequate housing includes a graduate thesis on Ontario's low - income housing policy, contributions to several law reform campaigns of municipal and provincial scope, and intervention in Charter litigation at the Ontario Court of Appeal.

More than 100 000 people in Australia are homeless, and many more are in insecure or inadequate housing arrangements.

Abusive or neglectful parenting and possible inadequate housing, food, transportation, health care, and access to safe and affordable child care; in need of services such as counseling to address relationship concerns or child behavior issues, treatment for drug or alcohol problems, or lack of parenting education about topics such as child development and positive discipline

Indigenous Australians experience higher rates of unemployment, family violence, incarceration, poorer health, including earlier death, poorer access and participation in education and inferior and inadequate housing choices.

All of this reduces rental housing availability, which worsens the problem of inadequate housing rather than alleviating it.

About 36 percent of children lived in households that experienced one or more housing problems, such as physically inadequate housing, overcrowded housing, or housing that cost more than 30 percent of the household income.

Homelessness and inadequate housing also affected access to bail and increased the risk of returning to prison; in 2015, 31 percent of prison dischargees were expecting to be homeless.

Pets of the Homeless uses the following criteria to determine homelessness: living in a transitional or emergency shelter, living in a campground, tent or vehicle, living in inadequate housing that lacks electricity, plumbing and heating or living in a motel (short - term one to two weeks at a time).

Individuals in poor rural areas, as well as in low - income urban communities such as Richmond, Calif., suffer disproportionately from childhood asthma, in part because of inadequate housing, deficient medical care and proximity to multiple sources of air pollution.

Unemployment, inadequate housing, poor health and education outcomes are still part of Roebourne life today.

Many women have gone from leading ordinary lives to living in cramped, inadequate housing.

The sense of meaninglessness of life felt in the rich North too, may be mainly due to unemployment, inadequate housing, breakup of family life, drugs, wasteful consumerism... in spite of social welfare measures, or because of long term dependence on them.

Inadequate housing.

Minnesota's Star Tribune reported that parents who are stressed due to issues such as hunger, inadequate housing, or lack of a job are more likely to engage in harsh parenting.

He asked workers to see themselves as equal to their employers and then compare their living standards — their inadequate housing, poor clothing, bad food, and lack of amenities: «to see is to desire... to desire is to struggle.»

Social issues such as hunger, inadequate housing, social isolation, and poverty are linked to poor health, especially as we age.

Previous research has demonstrated that insufficient income, limited transportation, inadequate housing, and food insecurity can limit access to and ongoing engagement in the care and treatment of people living with HIV and AIDS, as well as their adherence to medical routines.

However, this maneuvering is a bit circular, considering that inadequate housing, bad neighborhoods, and poor health are usually direct proxies for poverty.

They also suffer from crime - ridden neighborhoods, broken families, parental stress, inadequate housing, and poor health.»

Stress from a variety of sources - parental unemployment, depression, inadequate housing, neighborhood violence, can rise to toxic levels that adversely affect children.

HSUS defines a puppy mill as «a dog breeding operation, which offers dogs for monetary compensation or remuneration, in which the physical, psychological and / or behavioral needs of the dogs are not being fulfilled due to inadequate housing, shelter, staffing, nutrition, socialization, sanitation, exercise, veterinary care and / or inappropriate breeding.»

We at KCDA keep hearing stories of animals getting confiscated from owners due to inadequate housing (even though Spay / Neuter Kansas City's outreach program has free dog houses available to needy families), animals confiscated from owners because they are not altered under the mandatory spay / neuter ordinance for pit bulls, and others that are confiscated because they can not afford the fine associated with having not licensed their dog.

Conditions commonly seen at puppy mills are poor sanitation, inadequate housing and shelter, overcrowding and lack of living space, and little or no veterinary care.

Your hamster will need time to adapt to its new home, and inadequate housing can lead to stress, and potentially health and behavioral problems.

One of the positives that came out of these meetings was a consensus about what constitutes sub-standard commercial - breeding facilities, including any «dog breeding operation, which offers dogs for monetary compensation or remuneration, in which the physical, psychological and / or behavioral needs of the dogs are not being fulfilled due to inadequate housing, shelter, staffing, nutrition, socialization, sanitation, exercise, veterinary care and / or inappropriate breeding.»

New Hispanic immigrants are particularly «vulnerable to changes in climate» due to «low wages, unstable work, language barriers, and inadequate housing,» all of which are «critical obstacles to managing climate risk.»

On his return home in 1968, Snow found a community struggling with unemployment, the difficulties of self - government and socio - economic issues, such as inadequate housing, education and medical services (see: Indigenous People: Economic Conditions; Indigenous People: Social Conditions; Indigenous Women's Issues).

The Human Rights Code Amendment Act adds «social disadvantage» to protect individuals who are, or are perceived to be undereducated, underemployed, homeless or living in inadequate housing.

That inquiry heard that fixing the system doesn't in any way address the social conditions of poverty and social exclusion, inadequate housing and homelessness, addictions and FASD and the residual impacts of colonization and the residential schools system.

The legal issues include child trafficking, crime victimization (gender - based violence, sexual abuse, rapes, crimes in housing camps), unlawful evictions, inadequate housing, dangerous deportations (leading to issuance of precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights), immigration (e.g. need for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) extensions and redesignations in the U.S.), and access to justice and the courts.

implement effective national and provincial strategies to reduce and eventually eliminate homelessness and inadequate housing

(a) homelessness or inadequate housing; (b) low levels of education; (c) chronic low income; or (d) chronic unemployment or underemployment.»