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How has the pandemic impacted the housing circumstances of newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador?
Access to housing is a crucial dimension of (re)settlement and strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19. How has the pandemic impacted the housing circumstances of newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador? What questions/actions are the most pressing now and over the next year? We use the term newcomer as an umbrella term encompassing different arrival and settlement experiences, including immigrants admitted as permanent residents, migrant workers, refugees, former refugees, and international students. This project will:
1) compare the housing barriers and needs of these communities in NL; 2) examine the pandemic’s impact on the housing experiences of newcomers in NL, and; 3) consider how housing barriers can be addressed.
This project is a collaboration with partners the Association for New Canadians, the Happy-Valley Goose Bay Housing and Homelessness Coalition, the Public Legal Information Association of NL, and Municipalities of NL.
It is funded through the Ocean Frontier Institute Phase 2 Funding initiative, “Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI): Designing Safe, Sustainable, and Inclusive Coastal Communities and Industries for Atlantic Canada” (PIs Paul Foley and Lorenzo Moro). Work Package 9 focuses on the question: “how do we create sustainable coastal communities that are inclusive, safe, just, and equitable places to live and work in the contexts of climate, ocean, and coastal community change”?
