Toronto City Council caught up with hundreds of other Canadian and US cities earlier today and adopted a 10-year affordable housing plan called Housing Opportunities Toronto. Overall, the plan is projected to cost $483.7 million and is expected to provide practical support to 257,700 households. The Wellesley Institute launched our Blueprint to End Homelessness in 2006,
Archives for August 2009
Not much of a national housing summit today without the feds at the table…
The federal decision to boycott today’s national housing summit in St Johns, NL (the second time in two years that the federal housing minister has refused to meet with provincial and territorial counterparts) left the remaining summiteers without much to say or do. There is an urgent need for housing ministers to complete the process […]
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Can't find a home? Discrimination in housing fueled by recession
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has released its latest annual report, with a strong focus on discrimination in housing. While everyone is affected by the current recession, not everyone is affected equally. Even before the recession, discrimination in housing was being fueled by a province-wide affordable housing crisis, and all indications are that the problems […]
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H1N1 could pack big wallop; Toronto Public Health publishes new guide for homeless / housing providers
While the H1N1 swine flu has had a fairly mild impact to date in Canada, there are signs that it could pack a significant wallop when flu season arrives in three months. The pattern of cases to date is that while most flu cases pass with relatively minor symptoms, a significant number of people are […]