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Province streamlines social housing strategy
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Dec. 1, 2010
“We look forward to… begin to consolidate housing and homelessness programs, so as to better serve Ontarians…” said David Rennie, the president of the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association… Local reaction, though, wasn’t as enthusiastic… “Our housing programs are so disjointed that it takes a lot of energy to ferret out what anything means,”…The provincial share of affordable housing operating funding was $169 million in the last fiscal year, which is down 14 per cent from 2003. The impact of inflation over the last seven years decreases the funding value even more”…
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