Critical Stages in Canadian Housing Policy -- 1. Canadian Housing Policy in Perspective -- 2. Prelude to Policy: Government Inaction before the Great Depression -- 3. The Emergence of an Assisted Market Strategy, 1930-1935 -- 4. Housing and Public Relations, 1935-1940 -- 5. Between Necessity and Ideology: Conflict over the Federal Housing Role, 1939-1944 -- 6. Upholding the Private Market in Adversity: The National Housing Act 1944 and the Birth of CMHC -- 7. The Return to Privatism, 1949-1954 -- 8. Drift within Close Confines, 1955-1992 -- 9. Between Community and Anomie: The Poles of Canadian Housing Policy.