[homeles_ot-l] FW: [Diocese] FW: Anglican Journal News: Anglicans called to help end homelessness

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Anglican Journal News: Anglicans called to help end homelessness

Leigh Anne Williams
Staff writer

Nov 20, 2009

November 22 is National Housing Day, and both behind the scenes and on the frontlines, Anglicans are calling for an end to homelessness and shortages of affordable housing.

The Right to Housing Coalition, of which the diocese of Rupert’s Land is a member, planned to picket a decommissioned military base in Winnipeg today. Coalition members are protesting the fact that while many families lack affordable housing, more than 100 houses on the base have remained empty for the past five years. These houses, they say, have cost $1.5 million per year to heat and maintain. The coalition is calling on the federal government to permit the houses to be used as transitional housing for eligible families.

Virginia Platt, a parishioner at St. Peter’s Anglican church in Winnipeg, is one of the organizers. “Really it was my parish, a United Church and other churches in the neighbourhood of this military base who got the coalition going,” she says. According to information from the coalition, a second informational picket is planned for Steinbach, Man. and will involve a visit to MP Vic Toews constituency office.

To read the rest of the story, please visit the Anglican Journal website, http://www.anglicanjournal.com.

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