Home in the City : Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions - Alan B. Anderson

Home in the City

Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions

By: Alan B. Anderson

Paperback | 9 August 2013

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During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and M tis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive research, including interviews with more than three thousand residents, it allows for the emergence of a new, contemporary, and more realistic portrait of Aboriginal people in Canada's urban centres.


Home in the City focuses on Saskatoon, which has both one of the highest proportions of Aboriginal residents in the country and the highest percentage of Aboriginal people living below the poverty line. While the book details negative aspects of urban Aboriginal life (such as persistent poverty, health problems, and racism), it also highlights many positive developments: the emergence of an Aboriginal middle class, inner-city renewal, innovative collaboration with municipal and community organizations, and more. Alan B. Anderson and the volume's contributors provide an important resource for understanding contemporary Aboriginal life in Canada.

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Home in the City offers one of the best reviews and inventories of literature on Aboriginal issues, particularly on Aboriginal housing. It will make a very significant contribution to literature in this area, as it provides important information that should be made available to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy-makers.

- Tom Carter, Department of Geography, University of Winnipeg

There has been an utter lack of discussion about the city-specific dynamics of urban Aboriginality, and Home in the City does an excellent empirical job of demonstrating 'Aboriginal Saskatoon' in all its specificity. Its strengths include the depth of its data and the relationships fostered with Aboriginal groups in undertaking the project.

- Chris Andersen, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta

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