[homeles_ot-l] FW: Can't find a home? Discrimination in housing fueled by recession...WI backgrounder

[Lynne Browne]

FYI . Lynne Browne

Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH)

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From: nhhn-can-owner at povnet.org [mailto:nhhn-can-owner at povnet.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Shapcott
Sent: August 20, 2009 9:52 AM
To: Michael Shapcott
Subject: [nhhn-can] WI backgrounder: Can't find a home? Discrimination in
housing fueled by recession...

 

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has released its latest annual
<http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/en/resources/annualreports/ar0809>  report, with a
strong focus on discrimination in housing. While everyone is affected by the
current recession, not everyone is affected equally. Even before the
recession, discrimination in housing was being fueled by a province-wide
affordable housing crisis, and all indications are that the problems are
growing more intense. Click here
<http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/683033>  for a link to a
Canadian Press story that includes quotes from Michael Shapcott of the
Wellesley Institute and Sharad Kerur of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing
Association on the critical importance of a rights-based approach to dealing
with housing discrimination, and the challenges that are faced by affordable
housing landlords that must follow a bewildering array of provincial rules
and regulations under the Social Housing Reform Act. "Sorry It's
<http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/docs/CERAFinalReport.pdf>  Rented" is a
recent report from the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation on
discrimination in housing. Video link here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORmqsWdNK8> .

 

-          Michael

 

 

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Wellesley Institute 

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