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The magic of “ending homelessness” — and ending up with more
I am not suggesting that thousands of people were not retrieved from the streets and riverbanks and rescued from misery. I am not even arguing against a housing-first approach to homelessness. But if you sell a program on the basis of an unconditional and explicit promise to “eradicate homelessness,” should you not reduce it a smidgen? … Cities, almost by definition, end up with as many panhandlers and tent-dwellers as they are prepared, culturally and financially, to pay for…
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Canada comes up short at UN review of human-rights issues
First, the government continues to insist that economic, social and cultural rights aren’t fully protected by the Charter, and do not need to be. That flies in the face of international law and is an affront to those individuals and communities whose rights are disregarded… Second, there was no sign of federal leadership to draw the different levels of government in Canada together in a shared model for more effective, accountable and transparent implementation of human rights obligations.
Tags: Health, homelessness, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, rights
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Advocates taking Canada’s housing policy to UN
… affordable housing activists are taking their landmark “right to housing” Charter challenge to the international stage… the case… was never heard because lawyers for Ontario and Ottawa introduced a successful motion to strike in 2013. The activists appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which in June 2015 refused to hear the case, essentially upholding the lower court’s view that legislatures, not the courts, are the place to fight homelessness.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Lessons from the battle over an east-end homeless shelter
… there are two ways we can improve the conversation with the local community when a homeless shelter is proposed: increased education and transparency. We must spread the word that the homeless are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators. And, that in our society there are a multitude of ways that a person, through no fault of their own, can become homeless. To increase transparency… We must be completely clear… you do not get to choose your neighbours.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, participation, rights, standard of living
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Federal Budget 2016: Anti-Poverty Activists Want $3.2B For Affordable Housing
The pre-budget ask from seven groups is aimed at helping the 235,000 Canadians who experience homelessness every year, and social housing providers who are beginning to see the end of federal funding agreements signed decades ago with no new capital funding in sight… It’s an ambitious request… but… Studies suggest homelessness costs Canada $7 billion annually in services and lost opportunities.
Tags: budget, economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario should set up task force to stop human trafficking
… Premier Kathleen Wynne must act immediately to follow up on the recommendation from the authors of an all-party legislative report on sexual violence and harassment that calls for the establishment of a police task force to fight human trafficking… Though trafficking for forced sex was outlawed in the Criminal Code of Canada in 2005, it was only last year that the first pimp in Toronto was convicted under that law… because of a lack of resources and… the political will to fight human trafficking for sex.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty, women, youth
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