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A new definition on affordable housing is needed
… Toronto wound up with an affordable housing program that doesn’t actually produce much affordable rental housing. Instead, it results in housing that’s pegged to the city’s average market rents. Certainly, that’s not bad housing and it fills a need. But it does not fill the needs of Toronto’s low-income tenants as the city is so keen to suggest it does.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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A new definition on affordable housing is needed
In a city like Toronto the cost of housing has risen far faster than incomes, making the average market rent calculation meaningless when it comes to defining affordability. That’s why the city has an affordable housing crisis that sees low-income residents living in homeless shelters; waiting for years to get into social housing where rents are affordable; and struggling to make monthly paycheques stretch to cover the rent and still put food on the table.
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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The refugee ‘crisis’ originates far from our borders
… in 2017 just over 50,000 asylum claims — irregular or otherwise — were processed. Yet somehow a population that is less than one per cent of Canada’s population has come to constitute a “crisis.” If there is any crisis, it is one of political will and compassionate policy.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, globalization, immigration, rights
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The Connections Between Us: Learning to Leverage the Power of a Network Approach
The network structure provides flexibility, responsiveness, transparency, openness, and inclusiveness. A network approach also helps identify common cause, while distributing power and resources to involve many people in building solutions. It allows people to find one another through trusted connections so they can work together in reciprocal ways… Thus, networks have become useful in developing public policy approaches.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy
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An affordable place to call home
Field of Dreams, located in Elmira, Ont., gives people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to live independently in their own homes. That’s far better than the institutions they were once shut away in and the group homes with full-time oversight that have largely replaced those institutions. Their independent living is assisted by tenants in the same small apartment complexes who take on the role of “good neighbours.” They’re on hand to provide a little help when needed in exchange for more affordable rent.
Tags: budget, featured, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation
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When Collective Impact has an Impact – An Evaluation of the Practice
Collective Impact is a long-term proposition: take the time to lay a strong foundation; System changes take many forms: be iterative an intentional; Equity is achieved through different routes; be aware and adaptable; Collective Impact initiatives take on different roles in driving change; be open to different routes to make a difference
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At odds or an opportunity? Exploring the tension between the social justice and social innovation narratives
ThePhilanthropist.ca – 2018/03 March 19, 2018. Marilyn Struthers This article is the seventh in a series on social innovation. In 2013, the team at Ryerson University’s Faculty of Community Service invited me to join them as the inaugural John C. Eaton Chair of Social Innovation. The faculty has deep social justice roots and it created the position […]
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Homeless shelter crisis reveals unabashed attempt to legitimize inequality
What we have here is an unabashed attempt to legitimize inequality; the rich are rich because they deserve to be, because they’re superior. “Ordinary people,” by contrast, are inferior, and, therefore, deserving of poverty. Their very ordinariness condemns them to minimum wages and unpaid breaks. The homeless, at the bottom of the barrel, are wholly undeserving… The notion that taxes could be a means of redistributing wealth is now considered a socialist heresy.
Tags: budget, disabilities, homelessness, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Find permanent housing for the homeless
… the answer to homelessness isn’t emergency shelters. It’s ensuring there is affordable accommodation so people don’t find themselves on the doorsteps of emergency shelters or, worse, on the street. To do that the city needs the help of Premier Kathleen Wynne and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Both could immediately begin to ease the city’s chronic housing shortage by funding two programs that are already in the works.
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All branches of government must rally together for Canadians with disabilities
By creating standardized metrics that allow us to measure accessibility and have those anchored by global standards, we can measure progress and plan for improvements that will give us a consistent lens grounded in the principles of universal design so that a uniform manner of determining accessibility can be applied… By becoming inclusive and accessible in our built environment we create opportunity, liberate potential, maximize our labour pool and drive vibrant economic growth.
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