[homeles_ot-l] FW: Inclusionary Housing: An important part of a long term affordable housing strategy

[Lynne Browne]

FYI . . .  web site at: www.inclusionaryhousing.ca

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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From: Brian Eng [mailto:Brian at wellesleyinstitute.com] 
Sent: March 11, 2010 10:15 AM
To: Yutaka Dirks (ACTO)
Subject: Inclusionary Housing: An important part of a long term affordable
housing strategy

 

Please distribute widely.  (Apologies for cross posting)

 

Inclusionary Housing:
Creating affordable housing by harnessing the power of private development

 

Inclusionary housing programs are municipal programs that rely upon the
development regulations and approval process to have private developers
provide some portion of the housing within their new market projects as
affordable housing.

 

This is a proven tool in the United States that has created tens of
thousands of affordable housing units in hundreds of big cities and small
towns as diverse as Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Burlington, Vermont.
These communities have implemented programs that have increased the supply
of affordable housing, engaged a development industry that still makes a
healthy return on investment, and created healthy, diverse, vibrant
neighbourhoods.

 

The Inclusionary Housing Working Group (a project of the Wellesley
Institute) has created a web site that has a lot of great information about
how Inclusionary Housing works and is calling on the province of Ontario to
make Inclusionary Housing a part of the Long Term Affordable Housing
Strategy.

 

Visit the web site at:

www.inclusionaryhousing.ca

 

While you are there send a message
<http://www.inclusionaryhousing.ca/take-action-bradley/>  to Jim Bradley,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, indicating your support for
Inclusionary Housing.  And become
<http://www.inclusionaryhousing.ca/take-action-endorse-the-statement/>  an
endorser of the Inclusionary Housing Working Group's statement.

 

Inclusionary Housing is an idea whose time has come in Ontario.  Let's make
it a reality.

 

Brian Eng

Community Engagement Specialist

Wellesley Institute

Phone: 416-972-1010 extension 230

Mobile: 416-302-9992

 

www.wellesleyinstitute.com

Rigorous research. Pragmatic policy solutions. Social Innovation. Community
Action

 

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