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How to tackle the housing crisis in Canada’s cities
One in five renters spends more than half their income on housing. Emergency shelter occupancy rates are pushing 90 per cent. And 1.5 million Canadians can’t find safe, decent housing they can afford. Housing is less affordable at every income level and that’s having serious impacts on our nation’s prosperity, its productivity and its identity as a place of equal opportunity and inclusion… at the Toronto Housing Summit… we’ll present seven principles to tackle our housing crisis
Tags: budget, economy, Health, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Governments must pony up to address affordable housing crisis
… municipal leaders from across the country… are all in agreement that the federal government should dedicate most of its promised $20 billion in “social infrastructure” money over 10 years to affordable housing. While that would mean abandoning plans to spend some of that money other priorities, like child care and recreational facilities, it would at go a long way to addressing a housing crisis that leaves many thousands of people struggling to find a decent, affordable place to live.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Mayors form alliance to push for housing cash
At the summit, the big-city mayors will be requesting that most of the available $20 billion in federal money for “social” infrastructure be dedicated to public and affordable housing… Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government has not yet committed to a substantial investment, beyond the $42.9 million announced in April for energy retrofits for social-housing towers. But Toronto is facing a $2.6-billion backlog in social housing repairs… [which] has led to the closure of hundreds of units… and put thousands more at risk of being shuttered.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Is it a housing problem or an income problem?
A system that provided direct funding – income support – to people and families struggling to afford rent would be well within federal capacity to negotiate with the provinces and to administer, say, within existing tax and benefit systems. It would not discriminate among ownership tenures, location or region. Even better, beneficiaries could seek housing that serves their individual needs, not just wherever assisted housing happens to be built.
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Shelter system bracing for a ‘tidal wave’
… we’re taking beds out of the system, and we have yet to replace them; and the new standards mean that even more beds will be taken out, all in the name of improvements. The irony: we make things better which makes life will get worse for the men, women and children on the street… “The age of the guys on the street is going up. We have regulars, six of them, who are in their 70s. The average age of our men is 61. The tidal wave is coming.”
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Proper housing is a crucial a health issue
Social factors, like housing, income and wealth, educational background and race are more powerful determinants of health outcomes than our behaviours, genes or even the health-care system. And yet, experts in health are often trained to focus on the provision of health-care services, often sending patients back into the social and economic conditions that made them sick… As health-care providers, we know the actual prescription needed is safe, secure and affordable housing.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canadian shelters forced to turn away majority of women and children in need
The report, entitled Shelter Voices, also reveals the frequency with which women and children cross provincial borders to flee violence… 44 per cent, of shelters had received women from other provinces or territories in the past month alone… rates of violence against women have not diminished over time, and that gender-based violence remains “pervasive” in Canada… aboriginal women and those in the North are particularly affected.
Tags: child care, homelessness, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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