…it amounts to a lot of announcements for remarkably few units. The Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association estimates that there are 122,426 households on active affordable housing waiting lists in Ontario. Statistics Canada reports that 266,000 Ontario households are paying 50% or more of their income on rent. – Michael Shapcott…
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Community Engagement in Ontario and Beyond
There has been a great deal of discussion of community engagement in health planning in Ontario. Both the LHINs as they are beginning to plan out regional priorities and the Province as it is developing its new overall health strategy want to involve as many communities and individuals as possible….
Public-Private Partnerships for Hospitals
…four issues have emerged: cost, quality, flexibility and complexity. New facilities have, in general, been more expensive than they would have been if procured using traditional methods. Compared with the traditional system, new facilities are more likely to be built on time and within budget, but this seems often to…
HIV Care and LHINs
In November I spoke at a meeting of the Ontario Society of Physicians in HIV Care and discussed the implications of the LHINs for their work (download the speaking notes here). While HIV will remain a provincial strategy and community-based programmes will be funded centrally, and while primary care is…
Social Determinants of Health In Action
…delivering community-based primary care and related services that support disadvantaged communities particularly. A tremendous paper from the early 1990s set out the vital role community health centres can play in community development and in addressing the social determinants of health at their root causes. The Association of Ontario Health Centres…
Provincial Pre-Budget Submission on Housing and Homelessness
The costs of Ontario’s affordable housing crisis and homelessness disaster to individuals, communities and government are enormous, yet Ontario’s housing spending has been dropping sharply since 2000 and is currently at 14 cents per person per day. The Wellesley Institute, in our provincial pre-budget submission on housing and homelessness, is…
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Commons' finance committee calls for housing, homelessness action
Earlierthis week, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance released its recommendations after pre-budget consultations across Canada. I was invited to appear in front of the committee earlier in the fall as an expert witness on housing and homelessness on behalf of the Wellesley Institute. The committee has accepted…
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Renter households face supply, affordability squeeze
…drop in rental vacancy rates and the increase in average rents. The all-party House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has urged the federal government in its pre-budget recommendations, released earlier this week, to develop a new national housing strategy to meet the desperate housing needs of Canadians. – Michael…
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Wellesley update: Federal homeless funding never spent
…then it would seem that the expenditures should be closer to actual budget allocations. The evaluation team was unable to determine the rationale for this discrepancy. The apparent shortfall occurred in the National Homelessness Initiative, a seven-year program begun in 1999 to respond to a perceived surge in the number…
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A housing policy win – more homes on the way!
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced onTuesday that the provincial government is going to start the flow of $392.5 million in federal funding to build new affordable homes in Ontario. Sounds pretty simple – all the province is required to do is get out of the way and let the federal…
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