The Wellesley Institute, in its formal submission to Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee on Jan. 24, 2012, commends the City of Toronto as it considers the allocation of $108 million in federal and provincial affordable housing dollars. The Wellesley Institute supports the overall approach proposed by city staff, which is to divide the housing funds among […]
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US set to unveil national strategic plan to end homelessness as Canada dithers
On Tuesday, June 22, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness will unveil Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. Federal agencies will use the plan to develop programs and policies to reduce and end homelessness. The national homelessness plan is the latest in a series of housing and homelessness policies from the Obama […]
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Urban Settings Knowledge Network
About the Network Web Site: Urban Settings Knowledge Network Organizational Hub: WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan. Reports Our cities, our health, our future: Acting on social determinants for health equity in urban settings Author(s): Tord Kjellstrom Published: July 2007 Summary: This report looks at the social determinants of health that are […]
UPDATE: Housing ministers' meeting back to Wednesday
A senior official in the office of federal housing minister Monte Solberg has now confirmed that the federal, provincial and territorial housing ministers are meeting on Wednesday in Ottawa (not Thursday, as previously reported based on information that came from an Ontario official).
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UPDATE: Housing ministers set to meet Thursday
New information from a senior Ontario housing official has confirmed that federal, provincial and territorial housing ministers will be meeting this week in Ottawa. However, there is new information to correct the news we reported on the weekend: The meeting will take place on Thursday, April 3, and it will last for 90 minutes (not […]
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United Nations to Canada: You're failing in your housing obligations…
Canada has a long and successful history of housing programs that have provided a good home to literally hundreds of thousands of households, but much of that history has been shredded by almost two decades of funding cuts, downloading and cancellation of programs at the federal level, and also at lower levels of government. That's […]
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United Nations to Canada: You need a national housing plan
Canada urgently needs a “comprehensive and coordinated national housing policy” to meet its international housing rights obligations, according to a powerful new report from Miloon Kothari, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing that is being tabled at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. The report is […]
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Underlining the UK housing need
The National Housing Federation in the United Kingdom has just released a new study that underlines the critical need for a massive investment in more social housing in that country. Home Truths sets out the specific reasons for a target of 70,000 new affordable homes annually. In mid-July, the new UK administration of PM Gordon […]
Unanimous! TO's 10-year housing plan wins initial approval
The City of Toronto’s Affordable Housing Committee unanimously backed the proposed 10-year housing plan called Housing Opportunities Toronto at its meeting earlier today. The committee heard from a number of witnesses, including Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (a former Mayor of Toronto); Michael Shapcott, Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation […]
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UN to Canada: Take action on housing, homelessness!
Canada has received both a sharp reprimand and a strong call to action in the preliminary observations of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Miloon Kothari, in his preliminary observations at the end of his fact-finding mission to Canada (October 22, 2007).
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