HomeComing Coalition
In an outstanding demonstration of leadership, Toronto Councillor Joe Cressy stood alongside former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and representatives of the Annex Residents Association to announce a new homeless shelter will be coming to Davenport and Dupont. For many city councillors, shelter announcements present a moment of dread. But they shouldn’t be. Cressy reminds us…
Continue Reading “It’s time for us to stop being so fearful”
The very first chapter of the Federal Government’s new National Housing Strategy affirms that “Housing Rights Are Human Rights.” We couldn’t agree more. But what do housing rights look like in practice? The Ontario Government offered a good example in March 2016, when it introduced legislation that would permit municipalities to enact Inclusionary Zoning by-laws.…
Continue Reading How Ontario’s Inclusionary Zoning regs EXCLUDE just about everyone
Sarnia did it in 2010. Then Kitchener in 2012, and Toronto and Smiths Falls in 2014. Now London City Councillors have unanimously agreed to scrap a zoning by-law that discriminates against people with disabilities. London’s by-law had required that group homes be separated by 250 metres. But as members of Community Living London told members…
Continue Reading London revokes discriminatory group home by-law
If you want your faith in political leadership restored, listen to the words of Mayor Tory at the tail end of a 15-hour Executive Committee meeting. The item ought to have been a routine one: approving the lease for the much-needed Runnymede Men’s Shelter. Council had already approved the location. The community had been extensively consulted.…
When Toronto Life published its story of hapless gentrifiers who displaced rooming house dwellers in their quest for a 4000 square foot Parkdale home for a family of four, it unleashed a storm of protest, from a satiric fund-raiser to the informed response of the Star’s Edward Keenan.
At its April 26th meeting Toronto City Council approved a new engagement process to introduce new homeless shelters to the community. It was needed.