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Homelessness: Family about to lose their homes can avoid shelters, a London project proves
Moms or dads will often call a shelter like Rotholme to say they’re about to lose their apartment or a relationship is breaking up and they will need a place to stay… “Knowing that people contact the shelter creates an opportunity. Instead of saying, ‘Yes come down in three days or next week, what if the dialogue changed to say, ‘What can we actually do to prevent this from happening?’ ”
Tags: featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty
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Is incremental equality for First Nations Children compatible with reconciliation?
… the Canadian government is racially discriminating against 163,000 First Nations children and their families by providing flawed and inequitable child welfare services and failing to ensure equitable access to government services. When governments know better they should do better for kids, and this talk will discuss the history of the Canadian Government’s relationship with First Nations children and highlight the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling in the context of this value.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Philanthropy an untapped affordable housing resource
Traditionally… investments have been made in market instruments that generate the greatest financial returns… a foundation’s very structure depends on a permanent source of capital… But we’ve also learned that the capital can — on its own — generate very real social returns as well as financial ones. By partnering with Habitat for Humanity GTA, Toronto Foundation has made a $1.5 million loan to jump-start its largest residential property ever, providing new homes for 50 families.
Tags: housing, ideology, philanthropy, standard of living
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Province proposes limiting powers of Ontario Municipal Board
The quasi-judicial OMB — which hears disputes on everything from plans for monster homes to developers’ proposals for tall buildings that ignore city planning guidelines — has long been the bane of communities and councils. It is one of the most powerful appeal bodies of its kind in North America, with the ability to hear appeals as if they were new proposals and to overturn council decisions — allowing developers to circumvent the process of community consultation, review by city planning staff and approval by elected city councils.
Tags: housing, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Vital Signs report challenges Toronto to do better
One child in four in Toronto is being raised in poverty, a number that has hardly budged in 20 years. Five of the 15 federal ridings in the country with the highest rates of child poverty are here, and the city has the highest poverty rate of all large Canadian cities… as Toronto becomes richer it has also become a much more unequal place… The number of people relying on food banks keeps growing, and the need is moving from the central core to the inner suburbs… Housing is at a crisis point.
Tags: economy, housing, participation, poverty, standard of living
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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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Don’t even think of housing foster kids in jails
… children whose families ran out of money for housing were twice as likely to be placed with foster parents or group homes, according to an analysis of Ontario children taken into care in 2013… more than 90 per cent of the families [Native Child and Family Services of Toronto] works with are poor. “The state intervenes on behaviour associated with poverty, but never gets to the poverty itself.” … aboriginal children… are also 168 per cent more likely to be taken from their homes and placed into care.
Tags: budget, child care, housing, rights, standard of living, youth
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