Finding Home is a new (free) e-book on homelessness in Canada with 29 chapters (so far) on justice, Aboriginal people, immigrants and refugees, women, children and youth, health, and – of course – housing. A section on housing rights is being planned. The e-book includes summaries of recently completed research reports as well as the […]
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Obama administration pledges to end homelessness in US in a decade
The Obama administration released earlier today a 74-page, detailed strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness in the United States, with specific targets, timelines and accountability for results. The US plan stands in sharp contrast to the Canadian federal government’s national homelessness initiative, which is a patchwork of funding and initiatives that barely covers 61 […]
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Ontario introduces draft legislation to replace Social Housing Reform Act, allow secondary suites
The Ontario government has moved quickly to introduce draft legislation to replace the Social Housing Reform Act yesterday, tabling Bill 140 in the Legislature on the same day that it announced its proposed new provincial affordable housing plan. The new legislation weighs in at more than 90 pages, so it will take some time to work […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Blueprint To End Homelessness In Toronto
Builders use a detailed blueprint to guide them from a good idea to a finished structure. That’s the idea behind the Blueprint to End Homelessness in Toronto.Our blueprint starts with the foundation of more than 30 years of detailed research and reports on housing and homelessness in Toronto by governments, academics and community groups. It […]
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New federal housing policy = good jobs, good investment, good homes
Earlier this week, CIBC World Markets one of Canada’s biggest bankers delivered an important assessment of the Canadian jobs market over the past decade. The CIBC verdict: While employment growth has been reasonably strong over the past decade, the changing nature of the economy means that the new jobs haven’t been very good. The report […]
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Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
Ontario’s 2007 provincial budget has plenty of strong language about poverty and affordable housing. But the dollars are missing. Not a single new penny has been devoted to affordable housing, and the dollars devoted to eradicating poverty are limited and stretch over a number of years. At a time when 600,000 Ontario households are in […]
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Ontario Throne Speech and housing
The Ontario government opened the current session of the provincial Legislature on Thursday, November 29, with a promise to “begin work” on “reducing child poverty” by developing a poverty reduction strategy that would include “more affordable housing”. This promise needs to be matched with funding and programs before it will have any impact on actually […]
The state of the nation’s housing – federal election 2008
Housing insecurity at record levels One-in-four Canadian households pay 30% or more of their income on housing – that’s three million households, or close to eight million women, men and children. Housing is the biggest expense for low, moderate and middle-income households; housing costs over the past decade grew faster than inflation even though incomes […]
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