National Housing Day Rally Toronto: Housing is a human right!
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: righttohousingcoalition@gmail.com
For flyers you can download and print, visit our website:
http://www.righttohousing.wordpress.com
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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
Veahavta: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
MultiFaith Alliance to End Homelessness
Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
TCHC Hydro Block Tenants
This is a growing list! To endorse the rally as a group or organization: righttohousingcoalition@gmail.com
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Sources:
1. http://blog.legalaid.on.ca/2014/08/14/tracy-heffernan-a-constitutional-right-to-housing
2. http://housing4all.ca/the-details
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See also the event page for the Right to Housing Forum:
