This week, Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information have released a retrospective look in the latest issue of Healthy People, Healthy Places to mark the 10th anniversary of the Health Indicators project.
The retrospective look at a range of health determinants. Two quick highlights relevant to neighbourhoods:
- Canadians’ sense of community belonging has grown over the past decade and now about two-thirds of us report a strong or very strong sense of community belonging. Teenagers reported the highest levels.
- 13.7% of Canadians lack access to acceptable housing. This is defined mainly as affordability. The stats are broken down by
- place of residence (by province – Ontario was second worst),
- housing tenure (owners/renters – renters do the worse) and
- demographic status (seniors, immigrants, single parents and individuals living alone all faced the most challenges).
Belonging Community 
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