The brave economists at the TD Bank are gamely attempting to accomplish several impossible tasks at once. Their latest “housing bubble watch” begins with the warning: – no one knows if there is a housing bubble in Canada, and “it is, by definition, impossible to identify a bubble before it bursts”. Okay, one question mark […]
Archives for September 2006
Homeless numbers easing downward in NYC
Columnist Gary Mason was right when he wrote in the Sept. 5, 2006,Globe and Mail that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s housing campaign is producing results, but thenumbers are not quite so dramatic as he reports. The number of homeless people in NYC shelters reached an all-time high in 2003 of 38,310 women, men […]
Congratulations to Fife House
Congratulations to Fife House who have received a US$ 500,000 grant from the MAC AIDS Fund to expand their innovative transitional housing programme for people living with HIV/AIDS. We were pleased to have funded previous research that Fife House and other partners have been able to leverage so well into research and programme development that […]
Community Engagement in Ontario and Beyond
There has been a great deal of discussion of community engagement in health planning in Ontario. Both the LHINs as they are beginning to plan out regional priorities and the Province as it is developing its new overall health strategy want to involve as many communities and individuals as possible. It is always useful to […]
Standing room only at Wellesley municipal election housing event
It was standing room only at The Wellesley Institute on Tuesday evening for a special meeting to brief municipal election candidates on housing issues. Most of the time, during election campaigns, it’s the politicians that do the talking, but at the community housing meeting, it was the experts ” including street nurse Cathy Crowe, Toronto […]
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