The evolution of social housing policy in Saskatchewan: A comparative study of Regina and Moose Jaw, 1944-1982

The federal government's amendments to the National Housing Act (NHA) in 1949 and the Saskatchewan CCF's introduction of complementary legislation one year later marked the emergence of a social housing policy in Saskatchewan. While this policy required that the federal and provincial governments assume a majority of the costs for the construction and subsidization of public housing, it placed the responsibility for initiating a social housing project on the municipality. As it turned out, this had a substantial impact on the evolution of social housing policy in Regina and Moose Jaw.;During the Thatcher years, the social housing policies of both cities underwent some important changes. However, none were related to the amendments the federal government made to the NHA in 1964 or to the advent of the Liberal administration of Premier Ross Thatcher, since they could have been implemented under Canada's existing housing policy.;Saskatchewan's social housing policy also underwent a number of changes during the Blakeney era, 1971-1982. Some reflected an ideological shift that had taken place in federal social housing policy beginning in the late 1960s and culminating in a substantial revision of the NHA in 1973. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).