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Michael Shapcott

Ontario delays launch of provincial affordable housing strategy

The Ontario government promised last year, during its six-month province-wide consultation, that it would release its Long-term Affordable Housing Strategy by the spring of 2010. With just days remaining until the end of spring, a senior official in the office of the Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has confirmed that the the province will miss its own deadline. The province now says that it will release the plan in the fall, with the official adding: “We will continue to engage our partners over the summer as we get down to the details. We have made good progress, thanks in no small part to many members of the Housing Network of Ontario, and we want to get it right.” The Housing Network of Ontario has set out some key tests for a new provincial housing strategy.

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Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott is Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation at Wellesley Institute. Michael has worked extensively in Toronto, in many parts of Canada, nationally and internationally on social innovation, the non-profit sector, civic engagement, housing and housing rights, poverty, social exclusion, urban health and health equity. He is recognized as one of Canada’s leading community-based housing and homelessness experts. He is currently on secondment to the Princes' Charities Canada.

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