Mark your calendars and plan to attend this important event on July 24: The Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the Cities Centre, University of Toronto will launch its report, Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness and Housing for Immigrant, Non-Status, and Canadian-born Mothers. The study—the first of its kind in Canada—followed […]
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Powerful historic report links housing rights to housing action
The Ontario Human Rights Commission, an independent agency that reports to the provincial Legislature, released a dynamic new report today called “Right at Home” that is both historic and ground-breaking. The report draws powerful links between international housing rights – which have been ratified by the Canadian government – and Ontario’s desperate crisis of housing […]
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Re-developing public housing: TCHC gets little help
Don Mount Court is the first public housing project in Toronto to be redeveloped – coming in just ahead of Regent Park, the biggest and oldest public housing neighbourhood in this city (which has started the redevelopment process). Don Mount, in the east end of downtown Toronto, had to be redeveloped because a growing number of the buildings […]
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A Canadian first: International right to housing in Ontario
All eyes will be on the Ontario Human Rights Commission on Tuesday morning as it releases the first-ever (for Canada) official report on the human right to adequate housing. Human rights function as both a moral ideal and as a “deeply pragmatic political tool” at both the international and national levels, to paraphrase Professor Conor […]
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Invisible Men: Female-to-Men And Homelessness In Toronto
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Principal Organizations: The 519 Church Street Community Centre (Trans Shelter Access Project) Partner Organizations: York University, Department of Political Science, Turning Point Youth Services, Ryerson University, School of Social Work, Native Men’s Residence, Fred Victor Centre, Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter, City of Toronto, 2-Spirited People of the First Nations Principal Investigator: Kyle Scanlon The Trans Programme […]
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Three strikes and affordable housing in Canada is officially out!
The latest in three sets of major housing and income data over the past month (rental numbers released this morning) confirms the nation-wide affordable housing crisis is moving up the income scale from low to moderate to middle-income households. The numbers underline a deep, persistent and growing affordability gap between the rents charged in private […]
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Staggering one-in-four Canadian households in affordability squeeze
A staggering one-in-four Canadian households are in the housing affordability danger zone – paying 30% or more of their income on housing. Even more troubling, the poorest Canadian households – renters – face the worst affordability problems. New data released today by Statistics Canada confirms that the cost of housing – rental and ownership – […]
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Income Inequality, Increased Housing Insecurity, And Growing Health Inequities: An Analysis Of Statistics Canada’s Income And Housing Census Figures
An analysis of the housing and income figures released in May 2008, with a look at historical data and trends.
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Then and now – Liberal shout out on housing
The Liberal caucus is once again thundering and shaking its collective fist at the Conservative government, as opposition parties are wont to do in our Parliamentary system of government. The release of the Liberal urban report, with a section on housing, earlier today raises two questions: What’s the difference between the Liberal outrage of 1990 […]
Big win at TO Exec Committee on panhandling…
Toronto City Council’s powerful Executive Committee has unanimously adopted a detailed panhandling strategy that bucks the terrible trend throughout North America to criminalize activities associated with homelessness, housing insecurity and poverty. The plan recognizes that there are socio-economic and health issues that drive people to beg for change on the city’s streets and, therefore, the […]
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