[homeles_ot-l] Ontario delays launch of affordable housing strategy

[Lynne Browne]

FYI . . . Alliance to End Homelessness and many other agencies and networks
in Ottawa are members of The Ontario Housing Network which is calling for an
ambitious and well-funded strategy that includes money to maintain existing
social housing and build 10,000 new affordable homes annually; a new Housing
Benefit; changes to housing legislation; and a plan to ensure marginalized
communities get their fair share of help.

 

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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The Ontario government promised last year, during its six-month
province-wide consultation, that it would release its Long-term Affordable
Housing Strategy by the spring of 2010. With just days remaining until the
end of spring, a senior official in the office of the Ontario Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Housing has confirmed that the province will miss its
own deadline. The province now says that it will release the plan in the
fall, with the official adding: "We will continue to engage our partners
over the summer as we get down to the details. We have made good progress,
thanks in no small part to many members of the Housing Network of Ontario,
and we want to get it right." The Housing Network of Ontario has set out
some key tests for a new provincial <http://stableandaffordable.com/>
housing strategy.

 

-          Michael

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Michael Shapcott | Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation |
Wellesley Institute 
45 Charles St E, Suite 101                    Tel: 416.972.1010 ext 231
Toronto, ON, Canada,  M4Y 1S2           Mobile: 416.605.8316  
E-mail:   michael at wellesleyinstitute.com

www.wellesleyinstitute.com

rigorous research. pragmatic policy solutions. social innovation. community
action.

 

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