Creating Homes

Creating Homes: A Community Guide to Affordable and Supportive Housing Development THE COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS The solutions to end homelessness are as diverse as homelessness itself, and we all have a role to play in ending homelessness. [...] Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness ABOUT THIS GUIDE In a 2001 survey conducted by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) with the support of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), municipalities across Canada identified a lack of housing affordability and choice for specific groups as the key issue related to housing challenges in their communities.1 Since that [...] For the purposes of this guide, the types of housing will be separated into Non-market housing developers across Greater Victoria are not alone in terms of the challenges faced Affordable Housing in gaining community support for proposed projects Costs less than 30% of before-tax designed to address various types of community household income including shelter need. [...] Article 25.1 highlights the importance of the right to a standard of living: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood [...] The imagined link between certain types of housing and crime ranks as one of the strongest perceived negative consequences of affordable housing projects and is cited in 61% of cases where there is opposition to an affordable housing project.11, 12 Oins en iom npeligcattiioven.