While Toronto’s Core Services Review report recognizes the value to individuals and the City of Toronto in a housing-first approach to homelessness, that same review undercuts the ability of the City of Toronto to implement a housing-first approach by potentially gutting affordable housing initiatives and perhaps even shutting down the entire Affordable Housing Office.
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Housing first to end homelessness, but first Toronto needs homes
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A good and healthy home, with proper supports, is better than a bed in a homeless shelter. That’s the main observation in the City of Toronto’s Core Service Review of homeless and support services by KPMG consultants. The Wellesley Institute fully supports a measured process that allows people to move from homelessness to home, and […]
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Killer heat is triggering premature deaths; Toronto can take action
The City of Toronto and its agencies, boards and commissions, have taken significant actions against the deadly heat this summer, but a number of these initiatives are threatened by the current round of proposed cuts being considered by Toronto City Council. Toronto, and much of Canada, is suffering through record-breaking heat and humidity. Extreme heat is […]
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What have the Americans done about homelessness? Quite a lot, actually!
The Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott spent three days in Washington at the National Alliance to End Homelessness annual conference. While the United States faces a deep and painful level of homelessness, the US federal government is taking an inspiring lead in the campaign to end homelessness.
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Finally! Feds, provinces, territories announce new housing framework: Facts and figures
Three years after the federal government promised a five-year extension of key national housing investments, a new short-term housing framework agreement has been announced with the provinces and territories. There’s no new money in today’s announcement, and the new agreement mirrors the flawed 2001 federal / provincial / territorial affordable housing framework agreement. But the […]
Housing, homelessness and health the focus at national housing meeting
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Close to 100 housing leaders and government officials from across Canada devoted day one of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association’s annual conference to an in-depth review of the links between housing, homelessness and health. The Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott delivered the opening keynote, providing a survey of the latest evidence on the links between […]
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Sell-off of 900 TCHC homes: Facts and options
Toronto’s affordable housing waiting list hit an all-time record of 78,604 households in May, but that hasn’t stopped Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s one-man board Case Ootes from recommending the sell-off of up to 900 affordable TCHC homes. Ootes says there is no option but to cannibalize current TCHC stock to raise repair dollars, but this backgrounder […]
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Canada’s Housing Crisis And The Federal Election Flip Sheet
Canada’s housing crisis and the federal election discusses how housing insecurity and homelessness remain deep and persistent throughout Canada.
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Canada’s first conference for women and homelessness a success
By Susan Scott “Their time is up,” said the woman on the podium to thunderous applause. “All workers should be made to get three quotes on a bed with just one bus ticket – and in the rain.”
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Voices from the Street: Canada’s homeless women
Author Susan Scott is our guest blogger this week. In the lead up to the All Our Sister’s conference happening in London, ON May 9-12, Susan shares some insight into the hard lives of homeless women across Canada. Susan’s book, All Our Sisters, is available from University of Toronto Press.
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