The Social Vulnerability component of the National Human Settlement Layer (NHSL) includes information about broad spatial patterns of social vulnerability at the neighbourhood scale, and indicators about the capacities for a community to withstand and recover from disaster events based on intrinsic characteristics of housing, family structure, individual autonomy and financial agency.Information in the model provides a means of comparing relative levels of social vulnerability from one region to another across Canada and helps to identify specific dimensions within a community that contributes to their relative levels of social vulnerability. This information is not intended for site-specific study, but instead to understand broad patterns of social characteristics and vulnerability across multiple census dissemination areas.

The Community Well-Being (CWB) Index is a method of assessing socio-economic well-being in Canadian communities. Various indicators of socio-economic well-being, including education, labour force activity, income and housing, are derived from Statistics Canada's Census of Population and combined to give each community a well-being "score". These scores are used to compare well-being across First Nations and Inuit communities with well-being in other Canadian communities. Indicator values may be missing for a community because of non-participation in the census, inadequate data quality, or insufficient population size. For more information on the subject, visit https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1100100016579.

Under the By-law for a mixed metropolis, anyone who carries out a residential project of more than 450 m² (equivalent to approximately 5 units) must enter into an agreement with the City in order to contribute to the offer of social, affordable and family housing.For more information on the regulation and for the definitions of the types of housing (social, affordable and family), please refer to [the City of Montreal's site] (https://montreal.ca/articles/metropole-mixte-les-grandes-lignes-du-reglement-7816).**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

Data set on agreements concluded under the Regulation for a mixed metropolis to improve the supply of social, affordable and family housing (20-041). Since April 1, 2021, for all permits subject to it, the conclusion of an agreement in accordance with the Regulation is required. This regulation aims to improve the supply of social, affordable and family housing in the city.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

List of projects and/or buildings associated with off-market housing. Inventory built from various data sources of varying quality in the early 2000s and maintained since then on an annual basis. Data used to better understand the supply of non-market housing in the territory. Off-market housing corresponds to all housing owned by an entity that does not aim to make a profit: NPO, cooperative, government, paramunicipal company. The data is categorized by type of project, namely: HLM: Public housing managed by the Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal, whose rent is fixed at 25% of household income. This category includes the Corporation des Habitations Jeanne-Mance. OMHM: Affordable public housing resulting from projects by the Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal outside the HLM program and managed in a form similar to NPOs with the participation of residents. SHDM: Public and affordable rental housing belonging to the Société d'habitation et de développement de Montréal and whose projects may be managed by an NPO. NPO: Rental housing owned and managed by a non-profit organization and aimed at customers who have difficulty finding adequate housing. NPOs sometimes offer community support to their tenants. Coop: Housing owned by a cooperative that leases them to its members. Cooperatives aim to offer quality housing at affordable prices while promoting socio-economic diversity in projects. Anjou80: Affordable rental housing owned by the Anjou 80 organization.More information on the subject is available on [the City of Montreal's website] (https://montreal.ca/articles/repartition-des-logements-sociaux-et-communautaires-17858).**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

Residential projects approved by the municipal council and planned on the territory of the City of Sherbrooke.attributes:Name - Project nameHyperlink - Hyperlink to the project planNumberUnit - Number of housing units planned in the project**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

The Canadian indexes of social resilience and vulnerability were created to provide area-based information on resilience and vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters across Canada. Specifically, the Canadian Index of Social Resilience (CISR) aims to reflect a community’s ability to respond to and recover from natural hazards. In contrast, the Canadian Index of Social Vulnerability (CISV) aims to reflect the social vulnerability of an area based on factors that have the potential to amplify the impact of disasters on populations.Before the CISR and CISV were built, indicator frameworks were developed for social resilience and social vulnerability, respectively. Indicators were selected because of their demonstrated association with social resilience or social vulnerability. The selection was informed by the theoretical and research literature, existing indexes, availability of relevant data and engagement with subject-matter experts.The CISR and the CISV were created using data from Dissemination areas (DAs) across the country. The selected indicators were included in a principal component analysis, which is a statistical technique that allows a large number of indicators to be collapsed into a smaller number of interpretable components. Based on the results of the principal component analysis, DA-level scores were calculated for each index. Higher CISR scores correspond to DAs that are more resilient and higher CISV scores correspond to DAs that are more vulnerable.These indexes can be used to better understand areas which may experience the largest disproportional social impacts from natural hazards.

This layer represents the regional boundaries that the Employment and Labour Market Services Division of the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation maintains.

This program provides affordable rental housing to families in need and offers rental rates based on income.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Nova Scotia provide quality after school and out-of-school programs to children and youth that support their healthy physical, educational and social development.