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UN report on homelessness (II?)

Pogo
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October 17, 2007 - 10:59pm
 

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Pogo
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October 17, 2007 - 10:59pm
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I attended a couple of the events in Vancouver. Good work by David Eby and Pivot Legal Society for organizing the Vancouver part of the trip.Miloon Kothari is the UN Special Rapporteur for housing.

It was clear that he found Canada sadly lacking in providing for our most helpless, but a previous report five years ago accomplished little. Apparently Canada hides behind its federalist system ('yes we sign treaties, but we cannot control our darn provinces which have the constitutional responsibility').


Fidel
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October 17, 2007 - 11:25pm
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follow British Labour's lead on social housing!

quote:In a bid to correct some of his country's worst poverty problems, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched an ambitious $17-billion affordable housing plan that over the next three years will see 50,000 new units of social housing built annually. . .

Canada is alone among the major industrialized countries in not having a national housing strategy. Only 5 per cent of the housing stock in this country is social housing, one of the lowest levels in the world. Only the United States and New Zealand have less.

Such statistics are a national disgrace. As Toronto street nurse and homeless activist Cathy Crowe wrote recently in the Star: "Homelessness is our Katrina, but it wasn't caused by the weather."


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