Take Action on Affordable Housing!
If you haven’t already sent in your submission to Ontario’s consultation process to develop a new Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, you should do so before the deadline – which is December 31.
Over the last year, the Housing Network of Ontario (HNO) has been focusing community efforts on ensuring that the provincial [...]

MPP Lobby: Keeping Poverty Reduction a Priority
On December 4 – the one-year anniversary of the government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy – Social Planning Toronto launched an MPP lobby in Toronto ridings to keep poverty reduction a priority as government prepares its 2010 budget.
Nine meetings have already been held, with more to come in January and February. [...]

Missing: $330 Million in Federal Affordable Housing Funds
The Ontario government can’t account for one-third of a billion in federal housing funding – that’s enough money to build more than 5,500 new homes across the province.
The Ontario Auditor-General, in his annual report released December 7, reports that the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing cannot [...]

Thin gruel on welfare `gravy train’
The usual alarm bells went off last week when provincial Auditor General Jim McCarter reported that the government had misspent $1.2 billion of taxpayers’ money on overpayments to welfare recipients.
You can view this story at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/737859–thin-gruel-on-welfare-gravy-train

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