Affordable Housing

The November 5 Ontario budget “did not make any new commitments for housing specifically,” the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada noted. Before the budget, the federation had urged major investments in affordable housing and repairs to existing community housing as central to responding to the housing crisis and Ontario’s economic recovery. No such investments were … Read more

Today is World Cities Day, a day to celebrate all the ways that cities contribute to the economic and social vitality of our lives. Today, our affordable housing team is encouraging congregants to write to our Members of Parliament to urge them to greatly increase the funding and the targets set in the federal National … Read more

Here is a model letter than you can adapt to write to your city councillor and the mayor or to all councillors. Adapt it and use your own words to make this letter your own. If possible, indicate why you care—you know someone struggling to pay rent, you worry about winter coming, your feeling that … Read more

Things worth mentioning in your letter to MPs, Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries I hope that the promises that were implied in Throne Speech will be followed with firmer, more significant financial commitments that will end the housing crisis. I am a senior (working parent, young working person, etc.) and cannot afford as much as … Read more

Liberals:  justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca,  Bill.Morneau@parl.gc.ca, Filomena.Tassi@parl.gc.ca, Bob.Bratina@parl.gc.ca, wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca, Ahmed.Hussen@parl.gc.ca Note: Cut and paste that whole block of addresses into the “To” field of your email. Send separate emails for the Liberals and for the NDP. Note 2: Wayne Easter is the Chair of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance. Tassi and Bratina are local Liberal MPs. Ahmed Hussen … Read more