The Ontario government is expected to release the Drummond Commission report shortly. That report that is expected to substantially shape Ontario’s fiscal plan going forward. Don Drummond was appointed to provide the Ontario government with a plan to reduce the deficit. He has indicated that drastic cuts to budgets will…
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Don’t sell-off 740 affordable homes as wait list hits 82,138 households: WI submission to Exec
The Wellesley Institute, in its formal submission to Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee on Jan 24, 2012, joins with four former Mayors of Toronto, leading urban researchers at the University of Toronto and, perhaps most importantly, a great many tenants of Toronto Community Housing in recommending that Executive Committee reject…
New plan would see most fed/ON housing dollars for Toronto invested in rent subsidies for landlords
…for new affordable housing supply in Toronto. Of the $108.3 million in total, the city can use up to $5.4 million to help Toronto’s Affordable Housing Office deliver the funding programs and work with landlords and housing providers. As part of its 2012 budget, Toronto City Council considered a plan…
Toronto faces human rights legal hearing on city’s restrictive zoning rules
The City of Toronto has been ordered to face a full legal hearing at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal regarding city zoning rules that restrict the location of supportive housing for people with physical or mental health needs. The Dream Team, a group of psychiatric consumer / survivors, launched legal…
Continue ReadingToronto faces human rights legal hearing on city’s restrictive zoning rules
Wait lists hit new records, Exec Committee schemes to sell-off 740 affordable TCHC homes
Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee meets on Jan. 24th to consider an unprecedented recommendation from Toronto Community Housing Company (TCHC) to sell-off 675 buildings that include 740 affordable homes. The scheme comes at a time when Toronto’s affordable housing wait list sets new records month after month, and the vacancy…
People care about the kind of city they live in: Toronto City Budget
Thanks to the powerful interventions of many groups and individuals across the city, Toronto has a municipal budget that preserves many critical programs and services that had been targeted for deep cuts by the Ford administration. However, these programs and services should never have been on the chopping block in…
Continue ReadingPeople care about the kind of city they live in: Toronto City Budget
Four former mayors urge City Council, Ontario government to reject scheme to sell-off 706 affordable homes
…capital funding shortfall. The proposal to sell-off the affordable housing is to be considered by Toronto City Council within days. The Wellesley Institute has warned in a detailed backgrounder that the sell-off would be bad for the health of low-income renters in Toronto and bad for the population health of…
Budgets are about choices: Housing and homelessness cuts proposed for Toronto’s 2012 budget
…health and lives of the tens of thousands of Torontonians who directly experience homelessness, the hundreds of thousands who are precariously housed and the entire city. Wellesley Institute’s 2012 budget overview here. Proposed housing / homelessness cuts threaten health here. Selling off TCHC homes bad for Toronto’s health here….
Toronto Budget 2012: Overview
…to Toronto Budget 2012 Information and Resources from the Wellesley Institute: July 20, 2011: Housing first to end homelessness, but first Toronto needs homes (submission to the City of Toronto’s Community Development and Recreation Committee) Nov. 9, 2011: Countdown To Zero: Balancing Toronto’s Budget Nov. 23, 2011: Toronto’s…
Toronto’s proposed housing and homelessness cuts threaten health, lives of many people
…before Toronto City Council later this month, along with the direct experiences of three formerly homeless men who are navigating through the transitional shelter system. Full Toronto Star story Wellesley Institute background info on proposed 2012 budget cuts Wellesley Institute backgrounder on proposed sell-off of Toronto Community Housing Company homes…