[homeles_ot-l] Watch for the 2008 report card - March 31st

[Lynne Browne]

Hello all,
 
Next Tuesday, March 31st, the Alliance to End Homelessness will release its 2008 Report Card on Ending Homelessness. It'll go on our website that day but I'll send along the media release the day before.
 
In the meanwhile, you'll be interested in checking out the Halifax Report Card on Homelessness 2009 <http://mail.ysb.on.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cahhalifax.org/ReportCard/Halifax_Report_Card.pdf>  which was released for the first time today.
 
The Alliance's Report Card On Homelessness Model for Canadian Communities is being used to develop report cards in close to ten communities now so it's great to see them being released. 
 
 
Here's Michael Shapcott's comment: 
 
A total of 1,252 people stayed in homeless shelters in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2008, according to the first-ever Halifax Report Card on Homelessness 2009 <http://mail.ysb.on.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cahhalifax.org/ReportCard/Halifax_Report_Card.pdf> , which was released today. The report, prepared by Community Action on Homelessness <http://mail.ysb.on.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cahhalifax.org/> , provides a grim accounting of the poor health and terrible conditions facing people who are homeless in a community that is, for many Canadians, a picturesque port city on Canada's eastern coast. The report documents the meagre investments in affordable homes by federal and Nova Scotia governments, and sets out a series of practical and pragmatic actions to end homelessness in Halifax.
 
Lynne Browne
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH) 
Office 613-241-7913, ext 205, Cell 613-513-6647
147 Besserer St., Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca <http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/>