The Ontario government is cutting $21 million from provincial homelessness prevention funding given to the City of Toronto as of January 1, 2013. Details about the massive 16% cut in provincial funding is set out in a report that will be considered by Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee on Tuesday. When the provincial government announced its Long-Term Affordable […]
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Toronto Wait List Sets New Record, As FCM Calls For Housing Action
Toronto’s affordable housing wait list hit an all-time high in September – 90,157 households, or 165,977 women, men and children. The record-breaking wait list is just one of a growing number of indicators of deep and persistent housing insecurity in Toronto and across Canada. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities launched a new national campaign on […]
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Standing room only at Wellesley municipal election housing event
It was standing room only at The Wellesley Institute on Tuesday evening for a special meeting to brief municipal election candidates on housing issues. Most of the time, during election campaigns, it’s the politicians that do the talking, but at the community housing meeting, it was the experts ” including street nurse Cathy Crowe, Toronto […]
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Housing rights: A Canadian web site
The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) has launched a new web site devoted to housing rights in Canada called Canadian Housing Equality Resources . It's full of interesting and important information, and is designed for everyone from the person (or household) that is experiencing housing discrimination to the housing advocate. Lawyers and legal […]
Breaking news: FPT housing ministers finally set to meet!
Federal, provincial and territorial housing ministers are set to meet on Wednesday for the first time in more than two and one-half years, according to several reports. Provincial and territorial housing ministers met in early February in Vancouver, and had invited federal housing minister Monte Solberg to join them. Minister Solberg decided to boycott that […]
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Fed budget 2009: Billions in new housing spending, but not for those who need it the most
This backgrounder provides a first glimpse at housing in federal budget 2009. Additional housing analysis, and analysis of other key issues and concerns, will be released in the coming days by the Wellesley Institute. BILLIONS IN NEW HOUSING DOLLARS, BUT WHO REALLY BENEFITS: Federal budget 2009 promises to deliver billions upon billions of dollars over […]
Tenants literally being priced out of private rental markets: New CMHC survey shows
An increasing number of Canadians are being priced out of private rental housing. The latest survey of the private rental market by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (released this morning) shows that nation-wide, the private market rental vacancy rate edged up slightly. While some argue that an increase in vacancies means more choice for renters, and […]
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Reality check: Ontario gives housing dollars with one hand, takes away with other
Reality check: Ontario is indeed matching the 2009 federal affordable housing investments, as housing minister Jim Watson notes in a story in today’s Toronto Star (“Nearly homeless struggle to hang on“), but the province has also been steadily cutting spending at the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing since 2005. Finance minister Dwight Duncan, […]
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Ten Things You Should Know About Housing And Homelessness
Everyone in Canada has the right to a safe, secure, adequate and affordable home. The federal government is obliged in international law to ensure people have a home. That, in short form, is the international right to adequate housing as set out in numerous treaties and other legal instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, […]
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Outs and ins at Ontario's housing ministry: Watson out, Gerretsen in (for now)
Ontario housing minister Jim Watson resigned earlier today so that he can seek election at Mayor of Ottawa in the fall elections, and former housing minister John Gerretsen has been temporarily moved back into the Ontario government’s senior housing post.
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