[homeles_ot-l] 2 Minutes on Friday April 30th HNO Action Alert

[Lynne Browne]

FYI . . . Please circulate widely to colleagues and friends

 

Action Alert from the Housing Network of Ontario

 

Please take 2 minutes this Friday, April 30th, to email or call your MPP to
reinforce the message that Ontarians need a Long-Term Affordable Housing
Strategy that will effectively reduce and eventually eliminate
housing-related poverty.

 

See attached flyer (and below) for suggestions of what to say, & how to find
your MPP.

 

HNO Co Chair, Yutaka Dirks is asking HNO supporters - YOU - to please add
your voice on Friday April 30th to keep the pressure on for a Long Term
Affordable Housing Strategy that works! 

 

The "5 Tests for Success" are also attached. The "5 Tests for Success" were
released by the Housing Network of Ontario at Queens Park on April 19th to
outline what we want to see in the new Housing Strategy expected in June.
Check www.stableandaffordable.com <http://www.stableandaffordable.com/>   on
Monday April 19 to see the 5 Tests and media coverage.

 

FYI . . . In the flyer:

 

We need a Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy that works!

On April 30th take 2 minutes to tell your MPP

 

The Ontario government says they will release their new Housing Strategy in
June.

 

Email or call your MPP on Friday, April 30th. Say you expect bold action to
address our housing crisis. 

 

We need:

 

*        Annual funding to build 10,000 affordable homes a year and for
ongoing maintenance;

 

*        A new Housing Benefit to close the gap between high rents and
low-incomes;

 

*        A plan that works for marginalized communities;

 

*        Legislative changes to better protect tenants and to promote
affordable housing;

 

*        Accountability from government to meet their promises. 

 

Visit www.stableandaffordable.com <http://www.stableandaffordable.com/>
for more information about the Housing Network of Ontario's '5 Tests for
Success' for a long-term affordable housing strategy.

 

To find your MPP: 

www.ontariotenants.ca/government/mpp.phtml 

OR

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/member_addresses.do?AddType=CONT
<http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/member_addresses.do?AddType=CONT&locale=
en> &locale=en 

 

Let HNO know what your MPP says. Email: dirksy at lao.on.ca

 

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Lynne Browne

Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH)

147 Besserer St., 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON K1N 6A7

Cell 613-513-6647

Office 613-241-7913, ext. 205

www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca <http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/> 

 

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