[homeles_ot-l] FW: PRESS RELEASE - PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR HOUSING CALL FOR SUSTAINABLE FEDERAL FUNDING PARTNERSHIP

Thu Jun 27 10:26:51 EDT 2013

FYI

LYNNE BROWNE

Executive Director

Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa

171 George Street, Ottawa ON K1N 5W5

613-241-1573, ext. 314

Website:  <http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/index.cfm> End Homelessness
Ottawa

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From: c400group at googlegroups.com [mailto:c400group at googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Kimberly Yetman Dawson
Sent: June-26-13 1:31 PM
To: 'Megan Yarema'; c400group at googlegroups.com
Subject: PRESS RELEASE - PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE
FOR HOUSING CALL FOR SUSTAINABLE FEDERAL FUNDING PARTNERSHIP

The following is being distributed at the request of Newfoundland and
Labrador Housing Corporation: 

Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible for Housing

Call for Sustainable Federal Funding Partnership

Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible for Housing today met to
discuss the need for long-term, sustainable affordable and social housing.

“We are encouraged by the Federal Government’s recent proposal to extend
funding for new affordable housing,” said Robert C. McLeod, Minister
Responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation and Chair of
the 2013 meeting of Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for
Housing. “But together we also need to protect the homes of the more than
600,000 families in social housing.”

The ministers agreed that the current complement of social and affordable
housing in Canada is among the most important social infrastructure in our
communities. Significant decreases in federal social housing funding will
create increasing challenges to meet the housing needs of Canadians.

As the host of the ministers’ meeting, Linda Jeffrey, Ontario’s Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Housing noted that “the time to act is now. A
long-term federal funding commitment for housing is critical to address the
unmet housing needs of Canadians today and for future generations.”

Provincial and Territorial Ministers came together in Toronto to share
information and build on common ground with respect to affordable and social
housing issues. They noted that any affordable housing agreements need to be
flexible and respect provincial and territorial jurisdictions, for example
the training of apprentices. They also had an opportunity to discuss
engagement with stakeholders and plans for a future meeting with their
federal counterpart.

“We recognize the importance of affordable and social housing, and believe
that all levels of government need to work together to meet diverse regional
housing needs and priorities,” said Minister McLeod. “My colleagues and I
invite Minister Finley, the federal Minister Responsible for Housing to a
meeting in Yellowknife in order to work together to address the housing
needs of Canadians.”

Although it shares the concerns of the other provincial and territorial
governments about the substantive needs in housing, Québec intends to make
its own representations to the federal government regarding housing at the
appropriate time.

Ministers also noted that:

·         Safe, adequate and affordable housing is a basic need of
Canadians, including persons with disabilities, and the ability to secure
such housing is a determinant for most economic and social challenges.

·         Housing is critically important to the economy. Housing starts are
a leading economic indicator because housing creates jobs, both direct and
indirect. Affordable housing is a key component. In the three years from
2010-2012 combined provincial/territorial and federal spending added over $3
billion per year to the economy and created or sustained 35,000 jobs.

·         The aging population is putting increasing pressure on affordable
and appropriate housing for seniors and limiting their ability to remain in
their homes.

·         Poverty, which includes a large group of people whose housing
needs are not met, costs Canada’s health care systems $7.6 billion annually.

·         A recent Mental Health Commission of Canada study found that
increasing the supply of affordable housing will reduce pressure on health
care, emergency services and the justice systems. Every dollar spent on
housing reduces spending in other shelter, health and justice services by
$1.54.

·         Children who are adequately housed perform better in school.
Children in stable housing are four times less likely to drop out of school.

- 30 –

NL Housing staff were tweeting throughout the meeting so I saw this last
night http://www.scics.gc.ca/english/conferences.asp?a=viewdocument
<http://www.scics.gc.ca/english/conferences.asp?a=viewdocument&id=1977>
&id=1977

& they reissued the above this morning.

Kimberly Yetman Dawson

Executive Director

NL Housing & Homelessness Network

435 Blackmarsh Road 

St. John’s, NL, A1E 1T7

709-753-2000

 <http://www.nlhhn.org/> www.nlhhn.org

From: c400group at googlegroups.com [mailto:c400group at googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Megan Yarema
Sent: June 25, 2013 6:50 PM
To: c400group at googlegroups.com
Subject: Get the Premiers to put housing on the agenda!
Importance: High

Hi everyone, 

You may know that the Council of the Federation is set to meet this July 24
– 26 in Niagara, ON.  We think that this meeting of provincial and
territorial premiers will be an opportune time to get housing issues on the
provincial agendas and garner support for greater federal involvement in
housing, for the renewal of the expiring operating funds for social
housing, and a federal-provincial-territorial housing ministers’ meeting.
The Dignity for All Campaign is sending a letter to the Premiers to urge
action on housing and we are hoping you will join us in this effort.  If
your organization supports housing as a human right, as a key determinant of
health, and a critical component of ending poverty, considering signing the
attached letter.

We will be emailing Premier Wynne and CC’ing all her counterparts the week
of July 18th, so if you are endorsing this letter please respond by Friday,
July 12. 

The push for accountability and commitment to adequate housing continues!

Megan

Megan Yarema
Director, Education & Outreach / Directrice, Éducation et Mobilisation
communautaire
CANADA WITHOUT POVERTY / CANADA SANS PAUVRETÉ
251 Bank Street, 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON K2P 1X3

Tel: 604 558 0252 (Vancouver)

Toll Free: 1-800-810-1076 (Ottawa)

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Canada sans pauvreté
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