…communities (where most of the rental housing is located) is at 2.9% – below the 3% level that is considered the minimum for a healthy private rental market. The national rental vacancy rate edged up fractionally over the past year, but it has remained below 3% since 1999. While conventional…
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Three strikes and affordable housing in Canada is officially out!
…the rest of the so-called “secondary” rental market, which includes accessory suites and other types of housing that is often illegal, cramped and in many cases doesn’t meet minimum housing standards. Canada has a small social housing sector – about five per cent of all homes are in non-profit and…
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An urban health new year’s resolution
…impossible for them to be properly fed, clothed and housed, so as to maintain a high degree of resistance and physical fitness, and that endorses a wage that does not afford sufficient revenue for the home, a revenue that will make possible the development of a sound mind and body,…
Private rental market is failing tenant households
…of the number of vacant units in the overall “private rental universe” in urban areas (where most renters live) is at a critically low 2.6% in 2007, down from 2.7% in 2006. Many economists believe that a rental vacancy rate of 3% is the minimum level for a healthy rental…
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Government programs penalize Ontario's poor
…cities, living costs are high and the pay is not enough to maintain a decent living. Access to work at a living wage is also a problem for disadvantaged youth, for foster children aging out of state care, and other poor, non-immigrant Canadians. This paper aims to show how our…
Ontario Throne Speech and housing
…strategy for making clear-cut progress on reducing child poverty. The strategy includes a plan that would provide dental benefits to low-income families, and builds on measures already in progress. These include boosting the minimum wage to $10.25 by 2010, increasing child care spaces and providing more affordable housing. Your government…
Barbaric…
…disease, and permits social conditions to exist that make it impossible for them to be properly fed, clothed and housed, so as to maintain a high degree of resistance and physical fitness, and that endorses a wage that does not afford sufficient revenue for the home, a revenue that will…
Comprehensive poverty reduction plan for Ontario
…and timelines a co-ordinated plan of action across all ministries and departments monitoring and evaluation to ensure accountability. It focuses of some critical sectors including: good jobs at living wages strong safety net of income support programs access to early learning and child care affordable housing accessible education and training….
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Two days, two reports, two very different worlds
…commercial real estate and real estate investment trusts. Meanwhile, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a detailed research report on Thursday called Rising Profit Shares, Falling Wage Shares which shows that real hourly wages for workers (the people that do things, rather than own things) have been stagnant for…
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Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
…of 75 cents per year in the minimum wage until it reaches $10.25 in the year 2010. One surprising development is the partial uploading of social services and social housing spending in the 905 municipalities. Social services costs were downloaded by the Harris government in the 1990s and the McGuinty…
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