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Homelessness: Ontario’s $21 million cut likely to leave more people without a roof
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
October 18, 2012
A $21 million provincial cut to homelessness prevention funding in Toronto will make it harder for thousands of poor residents to stay out of shelters, residents and community advocates say… The cut takes effect during a period of high local unemployment and high rents, and as “social assistance rates no longer reflect even the most basic costs of living… More than 160,000 people are on the waiting list for affordable housing.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Social Security Delivery System | 3 Comments »
Canada’s politicians are failing the poor
Monday, October 15th, 2012
October 14, 2012
Faith communities find themselves in the usual bind. On the one hand, they seek to alleviate immediate needs by providing food and shelter through programs like “Out of the Cold.” On the other, they know that these acts of charity and decency implicitly give a kind of licence to politicians to do little and to expect religious institutions to shoulder too much of the burden of looking after the disadvantaged.
Tags: budget, homelessness, ideology, participation, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
We must address homelessness
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Oct. 02, 2012
… part of the solution lies in raising welfare rates, creating more housing and creating jobs that match people’s capacity… a rising number of homeless means increasing health-care costs, increasing social services costs, increasing clinical costs, increasing emergency shelter costs, increasing unemployment services, increasing mental health services, increasing addictions services — all of which will come from taxpayers money anyway.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, ideology, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Inclusion Delivery System | 2 Comments »
Anti-poverty activists fight to save housing benefit
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
October 09, 201
… the community start-up and maintenance benefit (CSUMB) would be cut off at the end of 2012… It’s an emergency allowance, available every two years… It enables the homeless to move into an apartment. It helps low-income tenants who can’t pay their utility bill keep the lights on; job applicants buy suitable clothes; families fumigate bedbug-infested apartments; and people facing eviction pay their rent arrears.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Social Security Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Autistic teen Miles Kirsh: Province steps in to provide housing
Friday, September 28th, 2012
September 24, 2012
The provincial ombudsman’s office has assured Donna Kirsh that Ontario’s social services ministry is working to find a way to keep her 19-year-old autistic son in respite care until funding for permanent group home care is available… In the meantime, the Barrie-area respite home where Miles has been staying since Sept. 5 has reduced its $400-a-day cost by $80.
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, housing, mental Health
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Frantic parents search for housing for severely autistic son
Monday, September 24th, 2012
September 22, 2012
[Despite] an additional $25 million for residential services for people in urgent need… the need has likely far exceeded the funds… “This is a provincial, system-wide problem and it is bad in all regions”… waiting lists for residential care are growing daily and many people are falling through the cracks. “Some end up in hospital, long-term care and prisons”…
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | No Comments »
The wait in Ontario for social housing can run to 10 years
Monday, August 27th, 2012
August 26, 2012
For the fifth year in a row more Ontario households joined the waiting list for social housing than got off it. Queues across the province have swollen by a shocking 26 per cent since 2007 with some people waiting a decade for affordable housing… For all too many, that amounts to a 10-year sentence of being trapped in poverty as rents they can barely afford gobble up their money, leaving precious little on which to live. In a country as rich as Canada, this is a disgrace.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Social Security Delivery System | 3 Comments »
Toronto social housing wait lists growing
Monday, August 27th, 2012
20 August 2012
Households — single people, families and seniors — on waiting lists for affordable housing grew by 2.9 per cent to 156,358 in 2011… “Ultimately, governments, especially the federal and provincial governments, have to realize affordable housing is not something they can download to the City of Toronto and offload to the private housing markets… We have to get governments back to the table as serious partners.”
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Social Security Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Alberta makes strides against homelessness
Saturday, August 25th, 2012
13 August 2012
“Our plan appealed to people on the left who see the issue as a one of social justice. But it also appealed to the business sector because it was about a more efficient use of public money.” That’s because it was clear that homeless people are much more likely to end up in ambulances, hospitals, courtrooms, jails and shelters. All of these public services are expensive and homeless people were cycling through them yet still didn’t have a home to call their own.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Housing crisis in Attawapiskat still isn’t solved
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
2 August 2012
the federal government has never bothered much about the root causes of anything on First Nations reserves. That’s why many remain chock-a-block with poverty and hopelessness… Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who did his best to convince Canadians that the band council was to blame for the housing crisis because they had somehow mismanaged funds, was way off base. All he did was create even more distrust… To this day, the housing crisis in Attawapiskat – and dozens of other northern native communities – remains largely unsolved.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, Indigenous, standard of living
Posted in Equality Debates | 2 Comments »
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