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How the mayor could save $100 million
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Aug 31 2011
The scheme was drafted by a coalition of mental health activists… It calls on the city to move people with mental illness and addiction problems out of its homeless shelters. Civic workers would help them to apply for provincial disability support ($1,053 a month). This income would allow them to rent a private apartment… The beauty of this proposal is that the benefits outweigh the costs tenfold.
Tags: budget, disabilities, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Politics holding up $481M for affordable housing
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
August 26, 2011
… the agreement between Ottawa and Queen’s Park is formally announced, none of the money earmarked for Ontario can be spent. It means all new construction, rent supplements, renovations and affordable home ownership programs in the province are on hold. Sources say Ottawa is reluctant to sign off on an announcement so close to the provincial election for fear of giving Dalton McGuinty’s governing Liberals a boost… More than 152,000 Ontario households are on affordable housing waiting lists and an estimated 20 per cent of tenants are paying more than 50 per cent of their income on housing, advocates say.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing
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faith to end poverty campaign
Friday, August 26th, 2011
August 17, 2011
On June 9, 2011, ISARC launched the Faith to End Poverty Campaign to ensure poverty issues such as food, housing, and employment remain relevant throughout the provincial election. It is time for governments to make the elimination of poverty a priority through jobs and training strategies, financing for affordable housing, child care and income security, especially when more and more of our labour force is part time, temporary, and contract jobs.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, housing, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Helping homeless helps reduce crime
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
August 2, 2011
So what do lower crime rates actually mean? To me it means we are doing better at caring for people… Does that mean we should hire more police and pass tougher laws? Maybe. Does it mean we should expand our support for those in poverty? Probably. Do we need more prisons? No, because we put too many non-violent offenders in prison… What I do know is lifting people out of poverty will only continue to drop our crime rates.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, homelessness, ideology, poverty
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National Commission on Community Health and Social Services #1
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
July 26, 2011
The Canada Council on Social Development is exploring a new initiative, a National Commission on Community Health and Social Services, and we are reaching out to request your advice on this special project. We encourage you to visit our website to review our proposal and submit your suggestions, ideas, and consider participating with us. On the site, you will find: the purpose and reasoning for a Commission; how the Commission will be organised; what can be achieved; and how you can become involved.
Tags: child care, disabilities, Health, homelessness, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Helping homeless also helps the giver
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
June 6, 2011
Abuse, alcohol and drug problems, and mental disorders play a role in the lives of some homeless people, just as they do in the lives of Canadians who sleep every night in penthouse suites… Homelessness has many causes, driven primarily by a lack of affordable housing and low social assistance rates. The solutions demand a national strategy on housing and a serious commitment from government to eradicate poverty.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, poverty
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One in four Canadians have depended on social services: poll
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
May 25, 2011
Regardless of their personal feelings on why homeless people end up in that situation, an overwhelming majority of Canadians — 93% — believe nobody in the country should be homeless and housing access should be a fundamental right, according to 86% of the poll respondents. Almost all those polled said the homeless population “deserve a sense of dignity.”… Mental illness was also an area of focus in the survey, with it being cited as a suspected contributing cause of homelessness by 40 per cent of the respondents.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, housing, mental Health, poverty
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Politicking has hurt county’s poor
Monday, May 9th, 2011
May 7, 2011
A series of federal and provincial governments have left Simcoe County’s poor to suffer the degradations and misery of the street — to suffer the judgment and cruelty of society’s ignorant. According to the 2009 poverty report of the Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness, 7,500 people experienced homelessness in 2008. Many of these individuals were women who were sexually or physically assaulted, averaged three or more years of homelessness, and suffered psychological and physical harm from life on the streets (SCATEH 2009).
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, women
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Ontario retaining right to veto sale of public housing
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Apr 20 2011
The Liberal government’s new housing legislation requires all municipalities to have affordable housing plans with goals and timetables. And it gives municipalities more flexibility to meet those goals. But advocates said the law, introduced last December as part of the McGuinty government’s long-awaited affordable housing strategy, when too far when it eliminated the requirement of provincial consent for selling housing… The province’s decision to retain ministerial consent may thwart Ootes’ decision earlier this month to sell 22 single-family homes owned by the housing company.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Homelessness alliance likes city’s budget $14M will make difference, group says
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
April 12, 2011
… the city’s new budget… promises $10 million in new investment to fight homelessness and poverty plus a further $4 million in capital funding. “It’s going to be targeted funding to really focus on bringing some of the homelessness numbers down, and decreasing some of the effects of poverty” [chair Marion Wright] said. Next, she said, the federal and Ontario governments should try to measure up to what Ottawa is doing. The number of people who used temporary shelters last year -7,156 of them -was almost unchanged from the previous year.
Tags: budget, homelessness, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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