Canada’s Senate has unanimously adopted a comprehensive, 283-page report that calls on the federal government to implement a national housing plan, poverty reduction strategy and other measures on income, health, education and training. Under the rules of Parliament, the federal government has until September 20 to formally respond. In From the Margins sets out 74 practical recommendations from housing and homelessness to […]
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Canada inching closer to national housing plan as Commons' vote looms
Canada is inching closer to a long overdue and much-needed national affordable housing plan. Bill C-304, draft legislation to create a national plan that was proposed by Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East, is back for the second round of debate on third reading on Nov. 18. Then the Commons is scheduled to vote on […]
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'Made-in-Ontario' housing plan needs real targets, timelines and inclusionary housing: Bill 140 submission
The Ontario Legislature should amend Bill 140 – draft legislation to ensure all Ontarians are adequately housed – to make sure that municipalities can create locally-appropriate inclusionary housing plans, and the bill should also be amended to require the provincial housing minister to develop a real housing plan for Ontario, with real targets, timelines and funding […]
Four former mayors urge City Council, Ontario government to reject scheme to sell-off 706 affordable homes
Four former mayors urge City Council, Ontario government to reject scheme to sell-off 706 affordable homes Four former Toronto mayors are urging current Mayor Rob Ford and Ontario housing minister Kathleen Wynne to reject a proposal to sell-off 706 Toronto Community Housing Company affordable homes. Former mayor Barbara Hall, chair of the Ontario Human Rights […]
Federal budget cuts another $131 million in housing spending on top of big cuts last year
The 2012 federal budget, released on Thursday, confirms the ongoing erosion of federal funding for affordable housing. Not only is there no new money on offer, but the budget sets out a total of $131 million in cuts to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the federal government’s national housing agency, over the next three years […]
As Toronto adds 700th name to homeless memorial, Commons set to debate C400
Toronto’s monthly homeless memorial marks a sober milestone at noon on Tuesday as the 700th name is added to the list of women and men who have died as a result of homelessness in Toronto. This month, six names are being added to the list, including a ‘Jane Doe’ and a ‘John Doe’ – two people whose identity […]
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Removing Barriers To Family-Friendly Housing
Melbourne, Australia, like Toronto and many other cities around the world, is facing a shortage of affordable housing for families even as the private market builds relatively small new homes. Prof Carolyn Whitzman from the University of Melbourne was at the Wellesley Institute on January 21 to report on progress with her research and policy […]
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Homes For All: Social Housing In Toronto And Canada
The Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, presented to students at the University of Pennsylvania in March 2014 in Philadelphia. He focused on the links between housing and health in Toronto and Canada.
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Another housing announcement
The federal andOntario government made their latest announcement about new affordable housing allocations on Friday. This brings to ten the number of major federal-provincial announcements on this program, which was launched in November of 2001. Among the announcements: – the feds and Ontario have signed not one, but two housingagreementsto get money flowing and homes […]
New TO tax is fair, efficient, simple… and it could get new homes built!
Toronto City Councils Executive Committee will consider a recommendation for a new land transfer tax at its June 25, 2007, meeting. An extract from the exec agenda, with more information, is attached. This is an important new source of funding for urgently-needed housing funding that, combined with fully-funded national and provincial housing plans, would allow […]
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