It demands Ottawa fund annual net increases of 50,000 deeply-affordable housing units every year for 10 years
If Ottawa really wants to move the needle on affordable housing, it could adopt the goals of the new Social Housing and Human Rights campaign, launched Tuesday. To meet the government’s obligation to progressively realize the human right to housing, this campaign says Ottawa needs to fund 50,000 new non-profit units every year for 10 years. These need to be units with rents permanently set at no more than 30 per cent of household income. Is 50,000 enough? No. We likely need at least twice as much. But this amount of deeply affordable housing would be many times what the current National Housing Strategy has been achieving, might end homelessness if coupled with operating funds for support services, and would lift hundreds of thousands of Canadian households out of the unrelenting stress of soaring rents and fear of eviction.
You can read more and sign on to this call to action here: https://www.moresocialhousing.ca/