Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee meets on Jan. 24th to consider an unprecedented recommendation from Toronto Community Housing Company (TCHC) to sell-off 675 buildings that include 740 affordable homes. The scheme comes at a time when Toronto’s affordable housing wait list sets new records month after month, and the vacancy rate in the private rental […]
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Vote for Housing: 2011
Michael Shapcott will be joining a panel of housing experts in asking hard questions of our political parties on issues of affordable housing in Ontario, leading up to the fall election. On September 8th, Vote for Housing will host the event at the Metro Central YMCA. Already confirmed for the political panel are Glenn Murray […]
Voices from the Street: Canada’s homeless women
Author Susan Scott is our guest blogger this week. In the lead up to the All Our Sister’s conference happening in London, ON May 9-12, Susan shares some insight into the hard lives of homeless women across Canada. Susan’s book, All Our Sisters, is available from University of Toronto Press.
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Vision 2020: Foundation for a comprehensive Ontario housing plan
Ontario’s affordable housing plan needs to be built on a foundation that includes solid targets and timelines, and co-ordinates housing and homelessness initiatives of federal, provincial and municipal governments;
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Violence Against Women: The Importance of Housing
As we mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, it is important to consider whether women experiencing violence have supports available to help them to leave dangerous situations. For women experiencing violence, financial dependence on their abusive partner is often a reality. This means that accessing funds to establish a […]
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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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Video: A home for everyone everywhere in Toronto
Inclusionary housing / inclusionary planning is a simple and practical tool already in use in hundreds of US cities. Watch a five-minute video on health, equity and housing on Toronto’s 2010 municipal election agenda by Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott.
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Video presentations from Ontario housing summit – May 11, 2009
About 100 housing leaders from across Ontario gathered in Toronto on May 11 for the Housing Network of Ontario’s first provincial summit. The group is preparing for the upcoming consultation by the Ontario government to create a province-wide, comprehensive affordable housing plan. More info on the consultation, key resources and a special place to tell your […]
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Veteran MPP Jim Bradley named Ontario housing minister
Veteran MPP Jim Bradley, who has served in the Ontario Legislature for more than 30 years, has been named the new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in an Ontario cabinet shuffle announced this afternoon.
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Vertical Poverty: Setting out compelling evidence, offering pragmatic solutions
Toronto’s geographic concentration of poverty continues to grow – and with that comes greater inequality, more precarious housing and poorer health for people and communities. Vertical Poverty, a new report from the United Way Toronto (UWT), provides powerful new evidence that poverty is increasingly concentrated in the city’s 1,000 high-rise buildings – many of them scattered through […]
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