Homeward Trust Releases Community Plan 2011-15...read the plan |
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Edward Street Project Opens ...read more |
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Edmonton Homelessness Commission - Study of Homeless in Edmonton with Intensive Needs ...read report
(large file, please be patient). |
Mental Health Commission of Canada's At Home project
..read News Release ...Visit their website |
In This Together, Ending Poverty in Alberta. ..read report |
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Presentation by Tom Carter on Federal and Provincial Immigration Policy and Housing Outcomes
...view presentation |
Two articles on aboriginal people and homelessness distributed at 2011 Homefest...read first .... read second . |
| Hunger Count, a comprehensive report on hungar and Food Bank use in Canada..read more |
| New ESPC Document: Tracking the Trends..read more |
Alberta fulfills committment to 11,000 housing units..read more |
This Place Saved My Life..read more |
Native children in care surpass residential school era..read more |
Give Homeless Your Ear..Not Your Money..read more |
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| The Alberta Homelessness Research Consortium (AHRC) is sponsoring a modest amount of one-time money to seed new community-based research in key priority areas.. read more |
New Federal/Provincial Affordable Housing Framework announced, ...read more |
Research paper from Public Policy School at University of Calgary on approaches to affordable rent..read more |
Housing for ex-cons..Spend a little, save a lot..read more |
Memorial Sculpture taking shape.. read more |
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Police Team with Alberta Health to Combat Inner City Woes
Read Edmonton Journal Story |
Give Us Your Poor CD by Appleseed Records.
Purchase CD |
National Housing Research Committee-Spring Newsletter
View Newsletter |
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Province of Alberta to invest $100million in housing for low-income and homeless
Read Press Release
Read Edmonton Journal Story |
Housing and Harm Reduction Article by Edmonton Social Planning Council
Read Article |
City Helps Launch New Affordable Housing Project for Womien
Read News Article |
With No Help In Place, Refugees Pay Too Much For Shelter
Read News Article |
Life on the Streets Captured in New Collection
Read News Article |
Faith Groups Commit to Ending Homelessness
Read News Article |
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Edmonton Social Planning Council Budget Fact Sheet
The ESPC has released its annual analysis of the Government of Alberta's 2011 Budget. Read More
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Edmonton Inner-City Chinese Garden Redevelopment
The redevelopment of Mary Burlie Park may displace transients.
read more |
Affordable Housing Grants
Alberta announces affordable housing grants. read more. |
Alberta View Article on 10 Year Plan
Read this article about Alberta's response to homelessness.
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Memorial for Homeless Persons
The 6th Annual Memorial for Homeless Persons was held in Edmonton on January 22, 2011. Read More About the Memorial.
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CMHC releases Fall 2010 Rental Market Reports
The average rental apartment vacancy rate in Canada’s 35 major centres1 decreased slightly to 2.6 per cent in October 2010, from 2.8 per cent in October 2009, according to the fall Rental Market Survey released December 9th Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ).
View Rental Market Reports for major urban centres in Canada. |
Countdown: Putting a number on homelessness
The 2010 count of homeless people was released in mid-November and what little media attention it received was full of back-slapping congratulations that we now have homelessness on the run. The numbers were down from the 2008 count, after increases in every count from 1999 to 2008.
Read full article from the December edition of
Edmonton Street News. |
New Report Released: Time for Action: Working Together to End Poverty in Alberta.
The Edmonton Social Planning Council and Public Interest Alberta released a new report, Time For Action: that shows 53,000 Alberta children lived below Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off (after-tax) in 2008, and that number is probably higher today due to the effects of the recession on our economy.
The report traces economic consequences of living in poverty in Alberta, offers some recommendations and directions to move forward, and scans poverty-reduction strategies in other Canadian provinces and territories....read more. |
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee Update
In October 1998 Toronto Disaster Relief Committee declared homelessness a national disaster.
http://tdrc.net/resources/public/Report-98-TDRC.htm
It still is a disaster. 12 years of government inaction leave us without a national housing program and in nearly all cases without a provincial program. The Recession has only deepened the crisis across the country.
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee is 12 years old and we are now 'without a home'. The impact of the recession, among other factors, has meant we could no longer afford staff or our rent at the Church of the Holy Trinity. I'm happy to report that all of our valuable history: files, media releases, film, books and photos that show our work on Tent City, the TB inquest, the freezing deaths inquest, inhumane shelter conditions, hot and cold weather emergencies, etc. will now be safely housed in the City of Toronto Archives.
However, to make matters worse, Canada Post refuses to forward our mail, despite our registration for mail fowarding - the reason being we were one of several tenants at the same address. This is fairly serious for us as donations coming in over the holiday season and winter months fuel what work we can do.
So I write to fill you in on our contact info:
Our new mailing address is
PO Box 662, 31 Adelaide St. E
Toronto, ON
M5C 2J8
Our phone number remains the same: 416-599-8372
Email is: torontodisasterrelief@gmail.com
Website: www.tdrc.net
Many thanks, Cathy Crowe, Volunteer ED of Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
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Canada inching closer to National Housing Plan
Canada is inching closer to a long overdue and much-needed national affordable housing plan according to Michael Shapcott....read more. |
PC MLA's pose questions to Housing Minister
On November 17th a number of PC MLA's posed questions to Minister Denis...read more. |
