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Homelessness in decline thanks to federal efforts, minister says
… about 4,000 people in Toronto have moved into permanent housing in the past eight years, Candice Bergen told the National Conference on Homelessness on Tuesday. “These are some of the strongest results that we’ve ever seen in any attempt to reduce homelessness”… The government, she added, is committed to expanding the so-called Housing First program that is driving the trend.
Tags: homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Mental health requires more than health care
Healthy communities throughout the world are ones that have considered the impact of the determinants of health and have focused strategies on addressing them, which in turn results in a healthier community… Often, clients are more consumed with making ends meet, putting food in their families’ mouths, ensuring they can pay the rent or mortgage or fretting over their job security. These worries begin to consume and exhaust an individual, which can lead to many forms of mental and physical illness…
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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In wake of Great Recession, policy makers are shooting in the dark
The long-awaited survey on income and housing trends, taken in 2011… is supposed to be the first large-scale measure of where Canadians stand economically since the Great Recession of 2008-09, which segments of our population have bounced back and which were left behind, whether gaps of inequality have closed or have become gulfs. It doesn’t do that – because it can’t… So, the people potentially most hurt by the recession… don’t appear to be accurately measured or represented by this survey.
Tags: economy, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Statscan’s data on poverty has become shaky
… despite spending over $650-million to collect data from Canadians – a cost increase of at least 15 per cent over the last census, in 2006 – this survey could not offer insight into such basic questions as whether the poor are getting poorer, or whether average incomes are rising or stagnating.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canadians see income, housing, education as determinants of good health: report
… poverty is the recurring theme that underpins most of these social determinants of health… Among the report’s… recommendations… is a call for Ottawa to launch a pilot project to reduce poverty through a guaranteed annual income… more affordable housing, an expansion of the “Housing First” approach to chronic mental-health issues that was developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and the introduction of a national food security program.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
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Income levels need to improve for people in poverty
… one way the government could improve poverty rates is to raise minimum wage to a more livable level that coincides with the cost of living… The effects of this plan would be three-fold since a higher minimum wage would decrease the reliance of people requiring social assistance thus saving the government money, plus the government would be collecting more taxes from the additional disposable income that these individuals would now have… saving money on the cost of social assistance and collecting more taxes
Tags: budget, child care, housing, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Finally, good news on homelessness
The authors… hailed cities and towns across the country for their creativity, willingness to experiment and determination to prevent, not just manage, homelessness. .. The provinces… fared badly in the report. A few have long-term plans to end homelessness, but lack the political will to implement them. Ontario falls into this category. It is promising a more “strategic and co-ordinated response” to homelessness, but failing to back it up with funding.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, standard of living
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