“Sorry, it’s rented”, new research from the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, reports that tens of thousands of Torontonians – people from racialized communities, people with mental health issues, single parents, people receiving social assistance – face serious discrimination when they try to rent a home, contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Help build a housing and homelessness map of Canada! Share your local housing and homelessness stories
Canada urgently needs a national housing plan – millions of Canadians are calling for one, and the United Nations has added its voice. The best national housing plan is built from the community up – a plan that identifies local housing and homelessness needs across the country, and pinpoints effective local housing and homeless initiatives […]
US President Obama lifts up non-profit sector, promises "new partnership" with federal government
“Solutions to America’s challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots – and government shouldn’t be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts.” With those stirring words, US President Barack Obama announced “a new kind of partnership between government and the non-profit sector” in a speech on Tuesday at the White House […]
UK PM Brown announces multi-billion investments in new affordable and social housing
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on Monday a new investment of GBP1.5 billion (Cdn$2.87 billion) to fund 20,000 new affordable and social homes over the next two years. The investment will generate 45,000 jobs in the construction trades and related sectors, according to the PM. The new investments are on top of planned spending […]
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Peel residents face 21-year wait for affordable homes; provincial consultation set for Monday
The Housing Network of Ontario is working with Peel-based housing and homelessness advocates to ensure that the real solutions to the housing needs of people living in Peel Region are front and centre at the Monday (June 29th) provincial government housing consultation. The Assistant Deputy Minister – Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is expected […]
UK non-profits face ‘take it or leave it’ approach from funders, says Critical Conditions report
Non-profit organizations seeking financial support are facing a large number of non-negotiable terms and conditions attached to grants from both government and charitable organizations, according to Critical Conditions, a new report from the UK’s Directory of Social Change released this week. “When funding terms and conditions are non-negotiable, applicants can be faced with a take-it-or-leave-it situation,” said […]
'Unprecedented' rise in number of precariously housed Americans: 2009 State of Nation's Housing report
Lower-income Americans are especially hard-hit by current recession and there has been an “unprecedented” increase in the number of people who are precariously housed. Those are among the grim findings in the 2009 State of the Nation’s Housing report that was released today in Washington DC by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the […]
Homelessness in Canada: New (free) e-book
Finding Home is a new (free) e-book on homelessness in Canada with 29 chapters (so far) on justice, Aboriginal people, immigrants and refugees, women, children and youth, health, and – of course – housing. A section on housing rights is being planned. The e-book includes summaries of recently completed research reports as well as the […]
Consolidated government investments in housing up across Canada
Governments at the federal, provincial, territorial and municipal levels across Canada increased investments in housing by 10.4% in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, as compared to the previous fiscal year, according to new figures released today by Statistics Canada as part of their government revenues and expenditures database. This brings consolidated government investments […]
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Ontario's affordable housing waiting lists growing painfully long…
Ontario’s affordable housing waiting lists are growing painfully long – up more than 4% over the past year to almost 130,000 households. The average wait for a good place to call home has grown to a staggering 21 years in Peel Region. The Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association released its latest annual waiting list survey earlier […]
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