This backgrounder provides a first glimpse at housing in federal budget 2009. Additional housing analysis, and analysis of other key issues and concerns, will be released in the coming days by the Wellesley Institute. BILLIONS IN NEW HOUSING DOLLARS, BUT WHO REALLY BENEFITS: Federal budget 2009 promises to deliver billions upon billions of dollars over […]
Archives for January 2009
$2.075b for housing in Tuesday's federal budget???
The federal government is busily leaking all sorts of details about Tuesday’s federal budget – a sharp departure from the usual secrecy that surrounds spending plans – and the latest “leak” from federal housing minister Diane Finley in the Sunday Toronto Star sets out $2.075 billion for housing initiatives. If the spending plans are confirmed […]
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A new New Deal for the US… and the world
As Barack Obama prepares to take his inauguration oath as President of the United States, it’s worth recalling the climatic words from the acceptance speech of Franklin Roosevelt as Democratic presidential candidate in 1932 (he would go on to be the most dynamic US president of the 20th century and, with Lyndon Johnston and a […]
Happy Martin Luther King Day!
Monday is a celebration of the amazing and historic legacy of the U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr – and it's also the day before the amazing and historic inauguration of Barack Obama as U.S. President. Many so-called experts are cautioning President-elect Obama to "manage expectations" and otherwise dampen down the major thirst […]
Mental Health and Homelessness: December 4, 2008
More than 130 people attended a special forum on December 4, 2008, on mental health and homelessness at Toronto’s Knox College, co-sponsored by the Wellesley Institute and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Dr. Kim Hopper, a medical anthropologist from New York City; Dr. Bonnie Kirsh from the University of Toronto; and Dr. Paula Goering, from […]
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Canadian home-owners get multi-billion dollar subsidy
Canada’s homeowners – who are about twice as rich as the country’s renter households – pocketed a tax subsidy of $11.5 billion in 2007. That’s more than more than five and one-half times greater than the annual federal investment in affordable housing programs for low and moderate-income households. On Friday, January 2, 2009, federal Finance […]
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