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Michael Shapcott

National Housing Day: Despite Promises, Few New Homes And Scarce Dollars

National Housing Day is November 22, 2007, which marks the day in 1998 when the mayors of Canada’s biggest cities declared homelessness a “national disaster.” Nine years on, senior levels of government have failed to deliver on agreements and commitments for new housing spending, and few new affordable homes have been built in recent years.

 

National Housing Day: Despite Promises, Few New Homes And Scarce Dollars

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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.

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.