Toronto’s affordable housing wait list set yet another record in November: 87,638 households or 161,866 women, men and children. The city’s wait list has been setting a new record, month after month, since the recession of 2008. The November numbers are up a staggering 27% in one year from 2011 and up 69% since the start of […]
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Five confirmed homeless deaths as Toronto Budget Committee debates cuts to housing and homelessness funding
As Toronto City Council’s Budget Committee begins public hearings today on the draft 2013 municipal budget (which includes cuts to housing and homelessness funding and services), street pastor Doug Johnson Hatlem reports that there are at least five confirmed deaths of homeless people over the past month. That’s the most number of confirmed deaths in […]
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Toronto’s 2013 municipal budget sets housing and homelessness spending at $665 million – down $128 million from 2012 and an even bigger cut from 2011’s municipal approved budget of $923 million. While the facts about the specific spending decreases are clear, the analysis around the 2013 budget for Toronto’s Shelter, Support and Housing Administration paints […]
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Big cuts planned for Toronto housing funding
The City of Toronto’s Shelter, Support and Housing is set to take a massive $128 million cut in housing and homelessness investments in the draft 2013 budget – down from $793 million in 2012 to $665 million in the coming year. The 2012 budget had, in turn, a $130 million cut from its approved budget […]
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The City of Toronto’s Shelter, Support and Housing is set to take a massive $128 million cut in housing and homelessness investments in the draft 2013 budget – down from $793 million in 2012 to $665 million in the coming year. The 2012 budget had, in turn, a $137 million cut from its approved budget […]
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Happy National Housing Day 2012: Three important things all Canadians should know!
Happy National Housing Day 2012, Canada! November 22 is recognized by the federal government, and in communities across Canada, as a day to mark the importance of affordable housing in the health and lives of individual Canadians and in the population and economic health of the entire country. National Housing Day traces its roots to […]
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Cut to housing benefits will affect the health of the homeless, women, children, and people with disabilities
In the 2012 Ontario budget, the government announced that it was eliminating the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB). The CSUMB helps people receiving social assistance to pay for large or unexpected housing-related costs, supporting them to become and remain housed. As of January 1, 2013, the CSUMB will end and 50 percent of its […]
The Real Cost Of Cutting CSUMB
In its 2012 budget, the Ontario government announced that it was eliminating the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) as of January 1, 2013. The CSUMB is designed to assist people receiving social assistance who have large or unexpected housing-related costs. Having access to this kind of immediate and flexible fund can often be the […]
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Thinking of “Frankenstorm”? Think about the homeless and the hungry!
As the northeastern part of North America braces for the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy (dubbed the “Frankenstorm” by some in the media because of its particularly ferocious prospects in the days before Hallowe’en), there are plenty of warnings in Toronto and elsewhere about the need for people to take effective emergency planning measures. Inevitably, the […]
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Video: Human Rights and Housing, Ensuring Healthy and Affordable Homes For All
Taped on Oct 4, 2012 at Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto, Ontario. Presenters: Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall, Ontario Human Rights Commission Tracy Heffernan, lawyer, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario Moderator: Michael Shapcott, Director Housing and Innovation, Wellesley Institute International, national and Ontario human rights laws are a robust foundation on which to build effective […]
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