[homeles_ot-l] FW: Final formatted version of the national housing report card

[Lynne Browne]

FYI – a very useful national report card on housing – with many useful charts – from Michael Shapcott – just released this morning.

 

“On the eve of the first provincial-territorial housing ministers’ summit in almost two and one half

years, a new report card from the Wellesley Institute reveals that the federal government and

eight of the thirteen provinces and territories have failed to meet the commitments for new

housing funding that they made in November of 2001.”

 

“Some overall findings:

􀃂 Taken together, housing spending by federal, provincial and territorial governments was

roughly the same in 2007 as in 2001 (except for a one-time-only spike in federal funding in

2007 due to allocation of Bill C-48 housing funds). This means that, across the country,

instead of a net new $2 billion in housing funding, as promised in 2001, any new housing

funding has either replaced previous dollars or not even been spent.

􀃂 Every province and territory, except Ontario, has made at least modest gains in raising

housing funding from 2001, but those gains have been largely offset by housing cuts in

Ontario as it downloaded housing to municipalities. However, in eight of the thirteen

provinces and territories, even their gains fell short of the commitments made in 2001.”

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

 

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Sent: February 1, 2008 3:13 PM
To: nhhn-can at povnet.org; hhno-on at povnet.org
Subject: Final formatted version of the national housing report card

 

Attached, please find the final, formatted version of the national housing report card which will be formally released on Monday morning.

 

It will go live to the Wellesley Institute web site at 9 a.m. along with links, etc., and we’ll put out a national media release.

 

Please feel free to post, copy and distribute this after 9 a.m. on Monday, tie it into local media work, link to the upcoming housing ministers’ meeting, etc.

 

I’ll send another note later with more details on the ministers’ meeting.

 

- Michael

 

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Michael Shapcott 

Director of Community Engagement 

The Wellesley Institute

45 Charles Street East, #101

Toronto, ON, Canada M4Y 1S2

Tel. - 416-972-1010, x231

Mobile - 416-605-8316

Fax - 416-921-7228

www.wellesleyinstitute.com

 


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