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Ontario housing strategy: Won’t reduce long wait lists
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Nov 30 2010
Claiming it needed “the time to get it right,” the Liberal government at Queen’s Park long delayed releasing a long-term affordable housing strategy. That’s what makes what was released Monday – three years after it was first promised in the 2007 election campaign – all the more disappointing. The housing strategy is little more than a series of regulatory changes that reduce red tape, simplify convoluted rules and provide municipalities more flexibility to cater to local needs
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s hidden emergency: the ‘vulnerably housed’
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
November 22, 2010
Each night, more than 17,000 Canadians sleep in homeless shelters or on the street. But for every person who’s homeless in Canada, there are 23 households that are vulnerably housed and at high risk of becoming homeless… more than 380,000 individuals and families… It’s often during a transition period or crisis that people fall through the cracks in our health and social safety programs…
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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We need a continuum of care for mentally ill offenders
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
November 22, 2010
… more people are entering the forensic system from the courts despite increased use of diversion from the criminal justice system… there is little evidence of an increase in the likelihood of violence by people with serious mental illness than there was 20 years ago. So why the rising pressure? …Deinstitutionalization is undoubtedly the right policy, but to be successful it needs comprehensive services to assist people in the community.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured, homelessness, housing, mental Health
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Poorly housed Canadians face same challenges as homeless: study
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
November 20, 2010
People who don’t have a healthy place to live -regardless of whether they are homeless or housed in substandard conditions -are at high risk of experiencing hunger, physical and mental health problems and hospitalization, the study says. They also have problems accessing needed health care. “The real gulf in health outcomes doesn’t lie between people who are homeless and people who aren’t homeless. It’s between those who have continued access to healthy housing and those who don’t.”
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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The homelessness and housing crisis in Canada
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
November 13, 2010
“Canada is inching closer to a long overdue and much-needed national affordable housing plan. Bill C-304, draft legislation to create a national plan that was proposed by Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East, is back for the second round of debate on third reading on Nov. 18. Then the Commons is scheduled to vote on Nov. 24. The Wellesley Institute’s Precarious Housing in Canada 2010 sets out the need, and the framework, for a national housing plan… Advocates hope that the bill will get third and final reading vote before the House rises for the holidays on Dec. 17.”
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Business on board for homeless plan
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
October 8, 2010
The social safety net that once kept the bottom from falling out from under the most poor and vulnerable Canadians is shredding. Homelessness is one of the most visible ways we see this. Solutions cost money and housing is particularly expensive -as anyone who makes a capital investment in property knows all too well. But homelessness is even more expensive. Over the past two decades, Canadians have been living and paying for the ever increasing cost of our collective failure to keep up the public investment in affordable housing.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology
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Inquest says one agency should oversee Ontario’s mental health services
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Oct. 08, 2010
The lack of long-term care for Mr. Debassige, coupled with the fact that those assigned to help him didn’t have access to enough information on him, left the troubled man without enough support to get back on his feet… Among the jury’s recommendations, which were directed to the Ministries of Health and Community Safety, were that the province should assess the need for more supportive housing for those with mental illnesses and addictions, fund more psychiatric care in the community and assess the caseloads of probation officers.
Tags: crime prevention, housing, mental Health
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Liberals unveil $1B home care plan
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Oct 05 2010
It’s… a reply to the question of what Liberals would do with approximately $6 billion they said can be saved by freezing the Conservatives’ planned cuts to corporate taxes in the next few years… Ignatieff’s “Family Care” policy plan has two parts: one would give six months of employment insurance benefits to caregivers, while the other would provide up to $1,350 a year to people who are providing home care to the elderly or ill.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, standard of living, women
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MPs need to back housing bill
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Sep 22 2010
Homelessness and lack of housing security hurt us all as Canadians. Safe and adequate housing is linked to better health, community stability, and reduced crime, whereas lack of affordable housing exacerbates poverty, isolation and ill-health, and denies people the stability they need to be able to contribute to society. Further, according to recent studies, homelessness costs Canadian taxpayers an estimated $6 billion per year for emergency shelters, social services, criminal justice and other costs.
Tags: homelessness, housing, standard of living
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Can’t give money away [Rent Supplements]
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Sep 18 2010
There are 142,000 low-income families in Ontario waiting on a list for an apartment they can afford. So one would expect that the government would have no trouble finding people to benefit from $100 a month to help pay the rent. But the province managed to design a rent supplement program that was so cumbersome and restrictive that, three years after its launch, it still hasn’t managed to spend all the $185 million that was earmarked for it. “There just weren’t the applicants,” claims the housing ministry.
Tags: budget, housing, poverty, standard of living
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