A full house of 50 business and community leaders packed the boardroom of the London (ON) Chamber of Commerce for that community’s first-ever business-community roundtable on mental health and employment on April 26. The event was co-hosted by Pillar Non-Profit, the London Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of London and Middlesex, Prince’s Charities Canada […]
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Housing And Homelessness In Ontario’s Budget: 5 Things To Look For
The Ontario government has an opportunity in its next provincial budget to make a substantial down payment on a much-needed provincial affordable housing plan. Housing and homelessness experts will be looking for progress in at least five key policy areas in the May 2nd provincial budget: Immediately commit the funds for cost-sharing of the federal […]
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Time for Ontario to take leadership on housing and homelessness: 2013 pre-budget submission
The Ontario government should take leadership on housing and homelessness: That’s the key recommendation from the Wellesley Institute’s 2013 pre-budget submission to the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance. The WI submission sets out three practical fiscal moves that the province can take to restore full funding for provincial housing and homelessness programs; negotiate a […]
First glance: 2013 federal budget extends housing and homelessness programs
Thursday’s federal budget includes three specific measures on housing and homelessness: A renewal of the national homelessness strategy and the affordable housing initiative, and a new housing fund for Nunavut in Canada’s north. First, a five-year commitment to the national homelessness strategy that was due to expire in 2014. Funding is $119 million annually, which […]
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Time for independent review of Toronto homeless services
Toronto needs an thorough review of the capacity and adequacy of the city’s homeless shelters and services, according to a submission from the Wellesley Institute to today’s Toronto City Council Community Development and Recreation Committee meeting. “Good public policy and effective practices are based on solid evidence and analysis,” notes the Wellesley Institute. “Toronto urgently […]
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Good news for TCHC tenants and all of Toronto: Refinancing deal yields big gains
Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee will consider a detailed financing plan at its March 20, 2013, meeting to generate $94 million in funding as part of a long-term strategy to restore financial stability to Toronto Community Housing Corporation. The plan would inject much-needed dollars into long-overdue capital repairs. The financing plan is good news for […]
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MPs have a chance on Wednesday to vote for housing and vote out homelessness
Members of Parliament will have a free vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday, February 27, on Bill C400 – An Act to Ensure Secure, Adequate, Accessible and Affordable Housing for Canadians. The bill is up for second reading vote – which means that it has already passed the first reading vote. Under the rules […]
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TO housing wait list rises to 87,303 households – up 5.7% in past year
Toronto’s affordable housing wait list was 87,303 households at the end of January, 2013 – a total of 161,266 women, men and children in low-income households and qualified for affordable housing. That’s an increase of 5.7% from the 82,610 households on the wait list in January, 2012. The January 2013 total is a tiny decrease from the 87,486 households […]
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The Second Reading of Bill C-400, Canada Needs A National Housing Plan
Guest post by Amber Grant. Amber Grant was in the Commons to observe the second reading debate on Bill C-400, draft legislation to create a national housing plan for Canada. The bill is a Private Member’s Bill, which means that there will be a ‘free vote’ – ie. the political parties will not require their […]
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Right To The City: Global Housing Coalition President Links Housing Rights In Latin America And Canada
The right to housing is linked to other critical social and economic rights and issues, including habitat and employment, said Habitat International Coalition President Lorena Zarate in a community forum at the Wellesley Institute on Feb. 14, 2013. This group of groups has been bundled together into a new collective right called the ‘right to […]