[homeles_ot-l] Fwd: Act Now on Housing and Homelessness Supports

[Terrie]

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From: Lorna Martin (ISAC) <martinlo at lao.on.ca>
Date: 2 December 2013 15:30
Subject: Act Now on Housing and Homelessness Supports
To: General CLN - ISAC <isac at lao.on.ca>


   Hello,



Last year, you filled out a petition on our
website<http://sareview.ca/isac-news/act-now-to-save-housing-supports-for-people-on-ow-and-odsp/>calling
on government to save the Community Start-Up and Maintenance
Benefit (CSUMB). Your action on this issue made a difference. That’s why *I’m
asking you to take action again *to protect housing and homelessness
supports in our communities.



The 2012 provincial budget announced the end of CSUMB, and the move of half
of the money (about $62 million) into a new housing and homelessness
support fund called the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative
(CHPI). This new fund is administered by local municipalities across Ontario.
You can find out more information about the changes here and
here<http://sareview.ca/isac-news/update-csumb/>.




After considerable community outcry, the provincial government made a
one-time investment of an additional $42 million to help local
municipalities “transition” to the new CHPI funding system.



*But that money runs out in March 2014. *



Last week, 27 community-based organizations from across Ontario wrote to
the Premier and several ministers urging them to make the $42 million in
transition funding a permanent part of CHPI funds.



You can read that letter
here<http://www.incomesecurity.org/documents/CSUMBCHPIlettertoPremierWynneetalNov2013.pdf>.
*I’m asking you to join them by supporting this call, as soon as possible.*



Municipalities across Ontario are planning their budgets for the coming
year right now. Decisions about housing and homelessness funding will be
made very soon. Municipalities – and the low income Ontarians who live in
them – need these additional funds.



Please, today, take two minutes to send an email. It’s as easy as writing:



*“I support the call to make permanent $42 million in ‘transition funding’
for critically important housing and homelessness funds administered by
municipalities under the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative
(CHPI), as stated in the enclosed letter.”*



*Send your email to:*



Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP: kwynne.mpp at liberal.ola.org

Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Linda Jeffrey, MPP:
ljeffrey.mpp at liberal.ola.org


Minister Responsible for Poverty Reduction, Teresa Piruzza, MPP:
tpiruzza.mpp.co at liberal.ola.org


Minister of Community and Social Services, Ted McMeekin, MPP:
tmcmeekin.mpp at liberal.ola.org




*Be sure to copy your own MPP. *If you don’t know who that is, enter your
postal code here <http://fyed.elections.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp>.
Then find their contact information
here<http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en&list_type=ministers&go=go>.




The $42 million will not replace CSUMB. But it will go some way to ensuring
that low income people in communities across Ontario will have the funds
they need to secure housing and to prevent losing their housing, due
directly to lack of income.



*Please take action today.* And be sure to forward this email to your
friends and colleagues asking them to take action too.



Thank you.





Jennefer Laidley

Research & Policy Analyst

Income Security Advocacy Centre

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ISAC website: www.incomesecurity.org

Social Assistance Review website: www.sareview.ca









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Terrie ( mocharebyl at gmail.com )
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