What can Toronto learn from Calgary when it comes to ending homelessness? Quite a lot, actually, and Tim Richter, the dynamic CEO of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, will be in town early next week to meet with a variety of groups and share their success in housing more than 2,300 previously homeless people over the […]
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Precarious Housing In Canada Flip Sheet
The impact of precarious housing affects the lives of millions of Canadians. To look at homelessness and inadequate housing outside of the scope of national social and health issues is a big mistake. But still, the federal government has been decreasing its investment in housing programs steadily over the last two decades.
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Toronto affordable housing sets yet another all-time record
Toronto’s affordable housing wait list hit another new record in August with 86,604 households on the full list – up 27% from the 68,369 households in August of 2011. Toronto’s affordable housing wait list includes 159,965 women, men and children with low incomes who are lining up for a space in the 10% of city housing […]
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Homeless numbers easing downward in NYC
Columnist Gary Mason was right when he wrote in the Sept. 5, 2006,Globe and Mail that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s housing campaign is producing results, but thenumbers are not quite so dramatic as he reports. The number of homeless people in NYC shelters reached an all-time high in 2003 of 38,310 women, men […]
Wellesley update: Why all the fuss from realtors about TOs land transfer tax?
Torontos proposed land transfer tax, far from being a massive tax grab since it targets people who can least afford it (according to the Toronto Real Estate Board), in fact targets high-end properties, such as the typical Rosedale mansion that sells for $1.5 million, for the biggest bite. Torontos property market is becoming increasingly expensive, […]
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Housing rights bill gets first reading in Ontario Legislature
Bill 47, the Right to Housing Act, was tabled and received first reading in the Ontario Legislature on March 27, 2008. This historic legislation, introduced by Cheri DiNovo, the MPP for Parkdale – High Park, would enshrine in provincial law the international right to adequate housing. In mid-March, as the United Nation's Human Rights Council […]
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$2.075b for housing in Tuesday's federal budget???
The federal government is busily leaking all sorts of details about Tuesday’s federal budget – a sharp departure from the usual secrecy that surrounds spending plans – and the latest “leak” from federal housing minister Diane Finley in the Sunday Toronto Star sets out $2.075 billion for housing initiatives. If the spending plans are confirmed […]
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Ontario, Manitoba latest provinces to sign bilateral housing deals with feds
Ontario (June 9) and Manitoba (June 5) are the latest provinces to join the growing list that have signed new bilateral housing deals with the federal government. The federal government promised $1.9 billion in September of 2008 to extend three federal housing and homelessness programs that were set to expire. To date, they have allocated […]
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Powerful day on Parliament Hill: National housing plan inches closer to reality
A dynamic afternoon of testimony today from a series of expert witnesses (including the Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott, has helped moved Bill C-304 – the draft legislation that sets out a process to create a new national affordable housing strategy – a step closer to reality.
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Housing And The 2007 Ontario Election
Ontario’s affordable housing crisis remains deep and persistent. More than 600,000 households (that’s more than 1.5 million women, men and children) are in core housing need1, and many more are directly affected by a shortage of homes and high housing prices. The affordable housing crisis affects the personal health of individual Ontarians, it disrupts communities and […]
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