Enough Talk: An Action Plan for the Toronto Region
Description:
Using research and statements from the financial and business, academic, and governmental sectors, the Alliance calls on governments to implement six initiatives to reverse the housing crisis. These include: 1) provide 10,000 rent supplements for existing and prospective high-need tenants; 2) make annual adjustments to the shelter component of social assistance to reflect local housing costs; 3) create 40,000 new rental housing units over 10 years, 25,000 of these units to be truly affordable on a rentgeared- to-income basis through a rent supplement program targeted at new affordable Review of the Literature from a Toronto Perspective Community Social Planning Council of Toronto 31 rental buildings; 4) create 5,000 new supportive housing units for those who need social service support with their housing; 5) continue existing homeless support programs, such as the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative that the federal government recently renewed; 6) bring 45,000 pre-1973 units of existing social housing to a good state of repair.
Type of Resource:
Government Document
Publication Date:
2003
Location:
Toronto