Recommendations from Operatin Phoenix - A National Housing Strategy
January 19, 2010
The Province
Housing: Ottawa must get back into housingOttawa must provide more leadership in the widely supported drive to provide more housing for the homeless and other disadvantaged people across Canada. It should reintroduce the type of national housing program that was scrapped in the 1990s. It should also recommit to the kind of partnership with B.C. that has helped create scores of social housing units in this province. The current level of federal funding for housing for the homeless simply isn't enough to meet the growing demand for it, especially in downtown Vancouver....Libby Davies, the NDP Vancouver East MP, has put forward a bill calling for a national housing strategy to combat homelessness which has received widespread support.
Comments
Federal Support is needed now
I just send a message about this...we are being hit by the lack of Federal Housing support..the MVHC (Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation) is no longer in the business for low income family housing. As of this Sept they are increasing our rents by 7.4 a year till they reach market rates.
This will mean too much of an increase for many of the fixed income families, disabled, elderly, and single parents there...including us..a single income family.
Where is the pressure for affordable housing for the working family? Where is our right to live in a decent neighbourhood with amenities and good schools and RESPECT!?
Our local goverments don't care. The focus is on the homeless and the working poor slip through the cracks.