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Inner-city job project cuts welfare costs, turns profit
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
30/08/2010
During its first seven years in business, Inner City Renovations has saved the public purse close to three-quarters of a million dollars. That calculation of social assistance payments saved and income taxes paid is one indication of the success of the construction/renovation firm, which was formed in 2002 with a dual bottom-line mandate: the traditional financial one and a far-less-common social one.
Tags: housing, participation, poverty
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Planner sought to democratize the city
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
August 17, 2010
An urban planner in Toronto in the booming fifties and sixties, Comay played a key role in shaping the city – in land use, housing, parklands, and the envisioning of heavier traffic patterns. After he left the public sector, his championing of social housing led to the creation of Ontario’s housing ministry… His urban spaces, which were committed to the idea of equal access to all services, were modern, socially just and fully egalitarian. Mass transit was cheap and mass housing available. Living downtown was not just for the rich.
Tags: housing, ideology, participation
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The Right to Housing: The Red Tent Campaign and Bill C-304
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
July 14, 2010
Inspired by a similar and successful effort in France, and initiated by the innovative, Vancouver-based Pivot Legal Society and allied organizations, the Red Tent Campaign uses visually striking tents to draw public attention to homelessness and the need for a pan-Canadian housing strategy – rooted in Canada’s legal obligation under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to honor the right to housing.
Tags: homelessness, housing, rights, standard of living
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Make domestic child health a priority
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
July 8, 2010
… while we go to heroic measures to help one sick individual, we are not generous in promoting the population’s health by guaranteeing all families with children access to decent housing, food, early learning or quality child care, and enough unstressed time together. The limited availability of these community supports is why nearly a third of the next generation of Canadians are vulnerable before they start school Put bluntly, we have a disease fetish in Canada. And the medical care system reinforces it.
Tags: child care, featured, Health, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Where’s housing plan?
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Jul 04 2010
… the government continues to dither on the one policy that could make a real difference: an affordable housing strategy. Just one week before announcing the rent increase guideline, the government again postponed its long-awaited strategy… The landlords say they won’t be able to maintain buildings because the guideline is too low to recoup the increased costs related to the harmonized sales tax (HST), which came into effect July 1… But the rent guideline is not the cause of all these problems any more than it is the solution to Ontario’s affordable housing crisis.
Tags: housing, standard of living
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Housing or just castles in the air?
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Jul 02 2010
For most of us, Canada is good country to call home. But for approximately 300,000 people, it is a country where they have no home. Some live in homeless shelters. Some spend their nights in parks, ravines, back alleys or on the streets. Some couch surf until their friends’ and relatives’ patience runs out. Governments have known about this problem for two decades. They’ve conducted studies, made promises, set targets — and missed most of them.
Tags: homelessness, housing, standard of living
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Policy change aims to boost access to affordable housing
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
June 25, 2010
The City of Kawartha Lakes has established a policy under the Social Housing Reform Act that officials say will enhance and expedite access to affordable housing units in its service area for people with special needs… The participating agencies are hopeful that further support service funding will be approved by the Central East Local Health Integration Network for the special needs groups that rely on their services.
Tags: disabilities, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Calgary homeless in from cold
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Jun 22 2010
One of the foundation’s top priorities was to provide homes for parents and their children who find themselves on the street or being shuffled from shelter to shelter at night. About 220 families were rehoused in two years against a target of 200. Plans are also underway to provide housing for people discharged from hospitals and detox facilities who have no place to go, as well as people released from jails and juvenile detention centres.
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty
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G20 Girls: Sandy Lake a world away from G8 or G20 summits
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Jun 18 2010
Aboriginal girls face more gender discrimination than their non-aboriginal counterparts. With a lack of proper health care on many reserves, young women have less access to birth control, medical help during pregnancy and pediatric attention for their babies… one in four aboriginal adults lives in an overcrowded dwelling, and 5,486 of 88,485 houses on reserves do not have sewage… Nearly 70 per cent of on-reserve Indians will not finish high school.
Tags: housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, women
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Human contact key to reform
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Jun 21 2010
There are systems in place to protect vulnerable people, like 82-year-old Al Gosling, from being wrongly kicked out of city-subsidized housing. But those systems aren’t well-understood by many tenants or even by Toronto Community Housing Corp. staff… Gosling was forced to pay a heavy price for that information gap: he lost his home and, eventually, his life… former chief justice Patrick LeSage makes detailed recommendations for preventing such tragedies. Foremost among them is an insistence on better staff training and on face-to-face contact with tenants before any evictions are carried out.
Tags: disabilities, housing, mental Health, poverty, rights
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