[homeles_ot-l] ATEH Press Conf. Provincial Election

[Lynne Browne]

Good morning everyone,
 
Today the Alliance to End Homeless released a new report on affordable housing activity over time in Ottawa and its questionnaire for Provincial Election Candidates here in Ottawa.
 
Both are on available on our website www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca <http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/>  and attached here for your convenience.
 
PLEASE CIRCULATE these widely.
 
 
>From the report:
 

Ottawa's Affordable housing activity: 
failures and possibilities

33% of Ottawa households rent!  
Only 6% of new housing starts were for rental units between 2000 and 2010

The Alliance to End Homelessness in Ottawa asks: why the shocking imbalance? 

Private housing developers effectively ignore 1/3 of the community. We can't all be owners! All the while, non-profit developers struggle to create affordable housing with inadequate funding

Now throw into the mix that 60,390 Ottawa households - 18.2% - live on incomes $30,000 and under annually and the vast majority of these will be renters.  At the same time in Ottawa in 2010, there were 7,156 individuals - approximately 5,836 households - who had to stay in a homeless shelter for an average of 62 days! The Alliance to End Homelessness in Ottawa has a target of 1,000 new built affordable units and/or rent supplements each year for the next ten years, including rent-geared-to-income housing, supportive housing, and units renting at the lower end of the private housing market.

Imagine . . . What might have happened if the Ontario government had increased its affordable housing spending to the average for Canada's provinces or if it had amended the provincial Planning Act to give municipalities the authority to require inclusionary housing in new residential developments with prices that lower income households can afford?

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

 

Today's press release is attached too.
 
Thanks for your helping sharing this!
 
Lynne
 
Lynne Browne
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH) 
613-241-7913, ext 205
lbrowne at ysb.on.ca <mailto:lbrowne at ysb.on.ca>  
147 Besserer St., Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca <http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/>  
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