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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rob:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The section 8 program is badly designed and may inflate rents, although it strains credulity to think that a subsidy of $6B would raise market rents by $8M.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For Canada <b>with a different program design for portable housing allowances</b>, a CHMC study team concluded that there was no evidence that Canadian housing allowances raised rents: Housing Allowance Options for Canada. That is also Marion Steele’s conclusion. She is the most knowledgeable person in Canada on housing allowances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Among the advantages of housing allowances one can list:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> - allow tenants a wide choice of where to live; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- achieve income mixing without the cost of subsidizing middle income tenants; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- use the existing economical housing stock, rather than newly built (and therefore expensive) housing; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- allow the available funding to be spread more equitably among more low-income tenants; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- allow flexibility in program design to respond to different regional needs and provincial budgets; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- allow the provision of assistance quickly; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- can eliminate deep core need regardless of a household’s place on a chronological waiting list; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- allow tenants to keep their housing assistance when they move to take a new job (which is good for them and the economy); <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- avoid the stigma often associated with public housing; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:22.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>- can easily be used in rural areas and small towns where there are no large rental buildings; and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:22.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- can be administered at very low cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>See the CFAA website for more details: http://www.cfaa-fcapi.org/pdf/CFAA_Portable_housing_allowances_facts_0809.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have stopped attacking social housing, and most social housing advocates have stopped attacking portable housing allowances. Perhaps the people who need help in affording their housing would be better served if we all recognized that various programs are useful to achieve different purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John Dickie<br>Chair, Eastern Ontario Landlord Organization<br>640-1600 Carling Ave.<br>Ottawa ON K1Z 1G3<br>Tel. 613-235-0101 Fax 613-238-0101<br><a href="http://www.eolo.ca/">http://www.eolo.ca/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EOLO represents the owners and managers of more than 36,000 residential rental suites in Ottawa. Founded in 1990, EOLO's members include some of the largest landlords in Ontario, as well as many small and medium size landlords. </span><span 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:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Rob MacDonald [mailto:robm@housinghelp.on.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> June 23, 2014 5:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> John Dickie<br><b>Cc:</b> M Laplante; Tim D. Aubry; Alliance Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [homeles_ot-l] Research on Housing First - accessing scattered sites through housing allowances<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It may be true that other provinces have rent supplement program, but housing advocates across the country have had their concerns about how they are implemented into the system and whether they are doing more harm than good. BC, for example has two supplement programs, one for seniors and one for families. Everyone else gets left out.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In my own experience I have seen landlords evict or 'transfer' tenants unwillingly so that they can renovate the unit or allegedly move into it themselves. There is no security of tenure for tenants and they can be evicted for a slew of reasons that may have nothing to do with their behaviour.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rent supplements can also be a lottery for landlords in provinces that have weak rent control, since landlords can raise rents as much as they want and take advantage of supplements. In Ontario, there is no limit to the rent increase a landlord can take in a new tenancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A number of U.S. studies have also proven conclusively that market rents increased substantially for non-supplemented low-income tenants who lived nearby. The Susin report studied 90large metropolitan cities where housing vouchers were introduced. The main finding was was that "those areas with more vouchers experienced faster rent increases than those where areas vouchers were less abundant." It estimated that the shelter allowance system actually raised rents by an average of 16 per cent. THe vouchers caused an 8.2 billion increase in total rent paid by low income tenants while only providing a subsidy of 5.8 billion, ersulting in a net loss of 2.4 billion to low income households.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>According to the Wellesley Institute, "supplements inflate rents for all tenants, not just those receiving subsidies.. The economic cost outweighs the economic value."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It must also be said that shelter allowance do nothing to alleviate the scarcity of housing. As the vacancy rate has dropped in Ottawa, landlords will be charging more for rents, and people with low incomes have no choice but to pay extravagant rents without assurances of adequate maintenance. A social housing program, on the other hand, will increase the supply. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:53 PM, John Dickie <<a href="mailto:JDickie@dickieandlyman.com" target="_blank">JDickie@dickieandlyman.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Many provinces other than Ontario use portable housing allowances, or housing benefits, which can be used for scattered sites.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The City of Ottawa now has a successful pilot project using portable housing allowances to expand the housing options for homeless people. Expanding housing allowances would be a significant positive in the fight against homelessness, and in improving housing affordability.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John Dickie<br>Chair, Eastern Ontario Landlord Organization<br>640-1600 Carling Ave.<br>Ottawa ON K1Z 1G3<br>Tel. <a href="tel:613-235-0101" target="_blank">613-235-0101</a> Fax <a href="tel:613-238-0101" target="_blank">613-238-0101</a><br><a href="http://www.eolo.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.eolo.ca/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EOLO represents the owners and managers of more than 36,000 residential rental suites in Ottawa. Founded in 1990, EOLO's members include some of the largest landlords in Ontario, as well as many small and medium size landlords. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> homeles_ot-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:homeles_ot-l-bounces@list.web.net" target="_blank">homeles_ot-l-bounces@list.web.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>M Laplante<br><b>Sent:</b> June 23, 2014 3:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tim D. Aubry<br><b>Cc:</b> Alliance Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [homeles_ot-l] Research on Housing First</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thank you for distributing this. I notice that Pathways to Housing's original scattered-site requirement seems to have become optional somewhere along the way with a variety of different implementations and studies. There seems to be a wide spectrum of approaches that adopt some elements of Housing First and not others, making it difficult to determine which features are essential. Without Section 8 vouchers in Canada, scattered-site may be more difficult to implement, but it might be essential.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Tim D. Aubry <<a href="mailto:taubry@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">taubry@uottawa.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have recently received several requests about the research literature on Housing First. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>FYI, please find attached a book chapter reviewing the literature that we wrote and appears in the recently published book “Homelessness and Health in Canada” (edited by Manal Guirguis, Ryan MacNeil, and Stephen Hwang). Please note that the full book is available open access at <a href="http://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/homelessness-health-canada" target="_blank">http://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/homelessness-health-canada</a> .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Our book chapter was written before the final report on the findings of the At Home / Chez Soi project were released. So I am also attaching a .pdf of the final report. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Tim Aubry Ph.D, C.Psych.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR-CA>Professeur / Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR-CA>École de psychologie / School of Psychology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR-CA>Chercheur / Senior Researcher</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR-CA>Centre de recherche sur les services éducatifs / Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR>Chaire de recherche facultaire en santé mentale communautaire et l'itinérance /</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Faculty Research Chair in Community Mental Health and Homelessness<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Faculté des sciences sociales / Faculty of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Vanier Hall, 5002J<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ottawa, ON<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>K1N 6N5<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Tel.: <a href="tel:613-562-5800%20x%204815" target="_blank">613-562-5800 x 4815</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR-CA>Fax: <a href="tel:613-562-5188" target="_blank">613-562-5188</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=FR-CA>E-mail: <a href="mailto:taubry@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">taubry@uottawa.ca</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bio: <a href="http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/psy/eng/profdetails.asp?id=137" target="_blank">http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/psy/eng/profdetails.asp?id=137</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Twitter: @TimAubry<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>PLEASE ADD OUR ADDRESS,<br><a href="mailto:homeles_ot-l@list.web.net" target="_blank">homeles_ot-l@list.web.net</a><br>to your email contact list.<br><br>THEN email your homelessness and housing messages to that address to reach the full list or to reply to a posting.<br><br>This list is not moderated; there is no editorial review.<br><br>Please try to keep messages to 200KB or less, including attachments, so that all subscribers are able to receive them.<br><br>The listserv does not permit Blind copy, BCC addresses or the use of too many Send To addresses. The best thing is to email to this list on its own.<br><br>The Alliance to End Homelessness does not verify the accuracy of submitted messages nor necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by message authors. Message authors are solely responsible for content of their messages.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>PLEASE ADD OUR ADDRESS,<br><a href="mailto:homeles_ot-l@list.web.net">homeles_ot-l@list.web.net</a><br>to your email contact list.<br><br>THEN email your homelessness and housing messages to that address to reach the full list or to reply to a posting.<br><br>This list is not moderated; there is no editorial review.<br><br>Please try to keep messages to 200KB or less, including attachments, so that all subscribers are able to receive them.<br><br>The listserv does not permit Blind copy, BCC addresses or the use of too many Send To addresses. The best thing is to email to this list on its own.<br><br>The Alliance to End Homelessness does not verify the accuracy of submitted messages nor necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by message authors. Message authors are solely responsible for content of their messages.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Rob MacDonald,<br>Advocate for Tenants<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>"<i>There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.” </i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>―Jordan Flaherty</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>