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Date: 2 December 2013 15:30<br>Subject: Act Now on Housing and Homelessness Supports<br>To: General CLN - ISAC <<a href="mailto:isac@lao.on.ca">isac@lao.on.ca</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt">Last year, you filled out <a href="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/act-now-to-save-housing-supports-for-people-on-ow-and-odsp/" title="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/act-now-to-save-housing-supports-for-people-on-ow-and-odsp/" target="_blank">a
petition on our website</a> calling on government to save the Community
Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB). Your action on this issue made a
difference. That’s why <b><span style="font-weight:bold">I’m asking
you to take action again </span></b>to protect housing and homelessness
supports in our communities.<b><span style="font-weight:bold"> <u></u><u></u></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt">The 2012 provincial budget announced the end of CSUMB,
and the move of half of the money (about $62 million) into a new housing and
homelessness support fund called the Community Homelessness Prevention
Initiative (CHPI). This new fund is administered by local municipalities across
<u></u><u></u>Ontario<u></u><u></u>. You
can find out more information about the changes <a href="http://here" title="blocked::here" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/update-csumb/" title="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/update-csumb/" target="_blank">here</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt">After considerable community outcry, the provincial
government made a one-time investment of an additional $42 million to help
local municipalities “transition” to the new CHPI funding system. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">But that money runs out in March
2014. <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt">Last week, 27 community-based organizations from
across <u></u><u></u>Ontario<u></u><u></u>
wrote to the Premier and several ministers urging them to make the $42 million
in transition funding a permanent part of CHPI funds. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.incomesecurity.org/documents/CSUMBCHPIlettertoPremierWynneetalNov2013.pdf" title="http://www.incomesecurity.org/documents/CSUMBCHPIlettertoPremierWynneetalNov2013.pdf" target="_blank">You
can read that letter here</a>. <b><span style="font-weight:bold">I’m
asking you to join them by supporting this call, as soon as possible.<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Municipalities across <u></u><u></u>Ontario<u></u><u></u>
are planning their budgets for the coming year right now. Decisions about
housing and homelessness funding will be made very soon. Municipalities –
and the low income Ontarians who live in them – need these additional
funds.</span></font><font><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt">Please, today, take two minutes to send an email.
It’s as easy as writing:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">“I support the call to make
permanent $42 million in ‘transition funding’ for critically
important housing and homelessness funds administered by municipalities under
the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI), as stated in the
enclosed letter.”<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">Send your email to:<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP: </span></font><font><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" target="_blank">kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org </a></span></font><font><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Linda Jeffrey, MPP: </span></font><font><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:ljeffrey.mpp@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:ljeffrey.mpp@liberal.ola.org" target="_blank">ljeffrey.mpp@liberal.ola.org </a></span></font><font><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Minister Responsible for Poverty Reduction, Teresa Piruzza, MPP: </span></font><font><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:tpiruzza.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:tpiruzza.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" target="_blank">tpiruzza.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org </a></span></font><font><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Minister of Community and Social Services, Ted McMeekin, MPP: </span></font><font><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org" target="_blank">tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org </a></span></font><font><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">Be sure to copy your own MPP. </span></font></b><font><span style="font-size:10.0pt">If you don’t know who that is,
enter your postal code <a href="http://fyed.elections.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp" title="http://fyed.elections.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp" target="_blank">here</a>. Then
find their contact information <a href="http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en&list_type=ministers&go=go" title="http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en&list_type=ministers&go=go" target="_blank">here</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The $42 million will not replace CSUMB. But it will go some way to
ensuring that low income people in communities across Ontario will have the
funds they need to secure housing and to prevent losing their housing, due
directly to lack of income.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">Please take action today.</span></font></b><font><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> And be sure to forward this email to
your friends and colleagues asking them to take action too. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thank you.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt">Jennefer Laidley</span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt">Research & Policy Analyst</span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt">Income Security Advocacy Centre</span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt">ISAC website: </span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.incomesecurity.org" title="http://www.incomesecurity.org/" target="_blank"><font size="1" title="http://www.incomesecurity.org/"><span title="http://www.incomesecurity.org/"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">www.incomesecurity.org</span></span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt">Social Assistance Review website: </span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.sareview.ca" title="http://www.sareview.ca/" target="_blank"><font size="1" title="http://www.sareview.ca/"><span title="http://www.sareview.ca/"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">www.sareview.ca</span></span></font></a></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:7.5pt"> </span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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