The Deets:
Friday November 21, 2014
12:00 pm
Yonge-Dundas Square
Toronto, ON
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The Call Out:
FWD: We have a housing and homelessness crisis in Canada. November 21st: We will be heard. HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
Speak up for an end to the housing crisis! Speak out for an end to homelessness! The Toronto rally is part of a National Day of Action taking place across Canada to send a message to the Federal government that we are calling for a national housing strategy and a stop to the cuts now!
For more information or to endorse the rally as a group or organization (see list of endorsers below): [email protected] For flyers you can download and print, visit our website: http://www.righttohousing.wordpress.com/
In Canada, we have 150,000 to 300,000 people who are visibly homeless, plus 450,000 to 900,000 people who are among the “hidden homeless.” The homelessness crisis may soon get even worse.
In Canada, 365,000 low income households are at risk of losing their homes because the Federal government refuses to renew subsidies for social housing. Meanwhile, the waiting list for social housing continues to grow: there are over 165,000 households on the waiting list in Ontario alone.
In 2009, Miloon Kothari, the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, called the housing and homelessness crisis in Canada a “national emergency.” Yet, Canada remains the only G8 nation in the world without a national housing strategy, and our government continues to cut funding to housing and homelessness programs. Join us on November 21st as we raise our voices collectively to say enough is enough! Stop the cuts! We need a national housing strategy now!
** Toronto rally endorsed by:
Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario Street Health Federation of Metro Tenants Association Toronto Drop-in Network Houselink Community Homes Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario Homelessness and Housing Umbrella Group Oak Street Housing Co-operative Regenesis Young Parents No Fixed Address Toronto ACORN The Dream Team Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic Women Speak Out Voices from the Street Working for Change OPIRG York Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation ODSP Action Coalition Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Ve’ahavta:The Canadian Jewish Humanitarian and Relief Committee Parkdale Community Legal Services Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Ontario Regional Council Children’s Aid Society of Toronto Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre The Centre for Research on Inner City Health (This is a growing list! To endorse the rally as a group or organization: [email protected] )
— Sources: 1. http://blog.legalaid.on.ca/2014/08/14/tracy-heffernan-a-constitutional-right-to-housing 2. http://housing4all.ca/the-details 3. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/09/09/ontarios_affordable_housing_wait_list_climbs_to_record_165000_households.html — See also the event page for the Right to Housing Forum: https://www.facebook.com/events/340129336160461/
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