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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FYI. . . via HNO - </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>community start-up benefit campaign</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Yutaka Dirks (ACTO) [mailto:dirksy@lao.on.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> September-05-12 10:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> Lynne Browne<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Catch-up RE: community start-up benefit campaign<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>I’ve pasted an action alert email below, please forward along to your local Ottawa-area contacts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Yutaka Dirks</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Advocacy Centre for Tenants - Ontario</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>425 Adelaide St. W., 5th Flr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Toronto, ON M5V 3C1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Tel: 416-597-5855 x. 5243<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Fax: 416-597-5821<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.acto.ca">www.acto.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy'>Please forward widely! </span></strong><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><img border=0 width=162 height=82 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD910D.819F5E40" alt="Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CD8B4F.A88D9260"></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><img border=0 width=110 height=109 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CD910D.819F5E40" alt="Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CD8B4F.A88D9260"></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#336699'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#336699'>Act Now to Save Housing Supports for People on OW and ODSP!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2012 provincial budget has eliminated two critically important programs </span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>for people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A81111'>The Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit is being cut.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) is important because:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is targeted to assist people on social assistance – people who rely on OW or ODSP are among the most vulnerable in Ontario. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It provides people with the direct assistance they need to retain their housing and prevent homelessness – it can help them pay their rent or utility arrears, or help them move to safer or more secure housing. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is a mandatory benefit – people that are denied are able to appeal the decision. This oversight ensures a measure of fairness for Ontarians with low-income and protects them from arbitrary decisions. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>These critically important aspects of CSUMB are likely to be lost in January 2013. That's when the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing will get half of current CSUMB funds and give it to municipalities for local housing and homelessness programs, which are meant to serve an even larger pool of low-income people.<br><br>The other half will be taken out of social assistance altogether. CSUMB will cease to exist as of January 2013.<span style='color:#505050'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A81111'>And the Home Repairs Benefit is being cut.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Home Repairs Benefit helps people on assistance pay for things like emergency plumbing repairs, patching a leaky roof, or repairing damage from fire or floods. <br><br>The only alternative for people on OW or ODSP who own their own homes will be programs that provide loans for repairs – which people on OW and ODSP cannot afford to repay.<span style='color:#505050'><br></span><br>The government stopped accepting new applications for the Home Repairs Benefit as of June 30, with the intention of spending all the remaining funds in this year’s budget by December 31, 2012. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This cut will disproportionately affect people on ODSP, as well as people in rural and northern communities.<span style='color:#505050'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A81111'>Act now to save these programs!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tell your local MPP to do what they can to reverse these cuts: in person, over the phone, or by mail. Attached to this email is a background kit that contains more information that will be helpful for you to lobby your local MPP. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In the meantime, take a minute and<span style='color:navy'> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=8f7a098f46&e=f67f28a7b9" target="_blank" title="http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=8f7a098f46&e=f67f28a7b9"><span style='font-weight:normal'>c</span><span style='font-weight:normal'>lick here to send an email against these cuts</span><span style='font-weight:normal'>!</span></a></span></strong><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=ea847a78a2&e=f67f28a7b9" target="_blank" title="http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=ea847a78a2&e=f67f28a7b9"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'> </span></strong></a></span></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#505050'><br></span><span lang=EN-US><br>Your email will go to </span><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John Milloy</span></strong><span lang=EN-US>, Minister of Community and Social Services, </span><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kathleen Wynne</span></strong><span lang=EN-US>, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and </span><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dwight Duncan</span></strong><span lang=EN-US>, Finance Minister, as well as the opposition critics for these ministries, </span><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>urging them to reverse these cuts and restore full-funding to these critical programs.<span style='color:#505050'> </span></span></strong><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>****************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>LYNNE BROWNE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B050;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Please update your files to show:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>171 George Street, </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Ottawa ON K1N 5W5<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>613-241-1573, ext. 314<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="mailto:lynnebrowne@endhomelessnessottawa.ca"><span style='color:blue'>lynnebrowne@endhomelessnessottawa.ca</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p 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