by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 10, 2011
The National Coalition on Housing and Homelessness appeared before this committee two years ago, urging the federal government to make a massive re-investment in affordable housing, and to work with all levels of government to address the homelessness disaster and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 10, 2011
The United Church of Canada approved an action-oriented response to the growing homelessness crisis in Canada and championed a national Housing Charter at its General Council meeting in Toronto in August. The main resolution asks the federal government to spend at...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 10, 2011
The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee is a group of social policy, health care and housing experts, academics, business people, community health workers, social workers, AIDS activists, anti-poverty activists, people with homelessness experience, and members of the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 10, 2011
Homelessness is on the rise throughout Canada. Some estimates put the number of homeless people at about 200,000 annually. Homeless shelters in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Kitchener, Ottawa, Peel, Barrie, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 10, 2011
The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA) is recommending that the federal government reestablish a financial commitment to promoting non-profit initiatives which preserve and develop affordable housing for low to moderate income Canadians. We provide two...
