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…
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More on Toronto budget 2013 housing and homelessness numbers
Toronto’s 2013 municipal budget sets housing and homelessness spending at $665 million – down $128 million from 2012 and an even bigger cut from 2011’s municipal approved budget of $923 million. While the facts about the specific spending decreases are clear, the analysis around the 2013 budget for Toronto’s Shelter,…
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TO 2007 operating budget: Housing and homelessness cuts
Three governmental budgets have been delivered over the past seven days, and the hundreds of thousands of low, moderate and middle-income Torontonians seeking affordable housing have been left out of all three. The federal budget of March 19 was entirely silent on new affordable housing spending; the provincial budget of…
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Fed budget delivers housing dollars
Wellesley update: Federal budget 2006 and housing Federal Finance Minister James Flaherty delivered the first budget of the Conservative minority government on May 2, 2006. This note examines the housing elements of the 2006 federal budget. Housing is one of the social determinants of health, and a key priority in…
Five questions for Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan
As Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan rises in the Ontario Legislature today (Tuesday, March 25, 2008) to deliver the 2008/09 provincial Budget, here are five key questions from the Wellesley Institute on housing and homelessness issues: ONE: Will Minister Duncan commit the funds to close Ontario’s billion-dollar housing deficit? In…
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Ontario budget 2009: Ontario housing policy now being written by feds
…out a made-on-Parliament Hill housing plan for Ontario. The budget includes spending cuts to the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing that are the biggest cuts of any provincial ministry. Page 97 of the Ontario budget reports that MAH spending will drop to $703.9 million in the coming fiscal…
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Budgets are about choices: Housing and homelessness cuts proposed for Toronto’s 2012 budget
…next week on proposed housing and homelessness cuts in the draft municipal budget will underline the choices that they have decided to make. The proposed cuts up for review by council in the latest draft of the municipal budget for Shelter, Housing and Support (current at the time of writing…
The 2012 Ontario Budget: Look Out For Affordable Housing
…new affordable housing and maintain existing homes. “Ontario Budget 2012 – What to look for: Affordable Housing,” provides an overview of the current fiscal landscape for affordable housing in the province, details the recommendations for increased housing investments included in the recently released Drummond Report on provincial spending, and sets…
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Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
…Fellow at the Wellesley Institute. Two days ago, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty complained that Monday’s federal budget fell short of the dollars that Ontario was seeking. Justice delayed is justice denied, said the Premier of the Harper budget. The same can be said of Premier McGuinty’s own budget, which falls…
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WI backgrounder: 15 times more money for roads than for homes?
Ontario’s 2008 Budget is long on language, but short where it counts the most: The dollars fall short of the words. Budgets are about choices and, fundamentally, budgets are about dollars. The real choices are revealed in the spending and revenue columns. When it comes to housing, Finance Minister Dwight…
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