• AMO urges the province to take decisive steps to address the root causes of homelessness, such as increasing income support and enhancing mental health and addiction services. [...] An estimated • None of the province’s Housing Supply 140,000 new units of community housing are Action Plans address the extreme lack of needed in this province just to approach the deeply affordable housing in Ontario. [...] Estimates of the shortfall of all Ontarians and addressing the root units in 2017 range from between 30,000 to cause of homelessness. [...] Lack of federal investment and support Decades of provincial neglect • The Parliamentary Budget Officer found • Social assistance rates have not kept pace that the federal Reaching Home funding with inflation and have never been lower.1 would need to be increased seven-fold to • 45% of Ontario tenants spend over 30% of meet its target of cutting chronic their income on rent. [...] Ot her Resources and Reports • AMO's Remarks and Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs on Bill 185, Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 • AMO’s Submissions to the Ministers of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and Energy “Bill 185 – Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act and Responses to Various ERO and Regulatory Registry Postings” • Homelessness Encampmen.
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- August 2024 1
- Context 1
- The federal and provincial governments working 1
- Municipalities play a supporting role in housing 1
- In recent years the pace and scope of provincial 1
- AMO Position 1
- Municipalities are doing everything in their power to help the province meet its goal of building 1
- 1.5 million homes however success depends on many factors beyond municipal control including interest rates labour shortages and developer decisions. 1
- AMO is also calling on the province to commit to a joint municipal fiscal framework review to 1
- Municipalities are also grappling with the homelessness crisis and the lack of deeply affordable 1
- The complexity and scale of these challenges calls for bold transformative action. All orders of 1
- AMO has called on federal and provincial governments to expand investments in housing- 1
- AMO urges the province to take decisive steps to address the root causes of homelessness 1
- Key Facts 1
- AMO estimates that Ontario 1
- Already strapped for funds Bill 23 1
- The province has removed too many land-use planning environmental protections in the name of 2
- Deeply Affordable Housing cannot be neglected 2
- None of the provinces Housing Supply 2
- Action Plans address the extreme lack of deeply affordable housing in Ontario. 2
- Housing for low-income residents is 2
- Federal and provincial decisions have made homelessness worse. Shared commitment and action are needed to end chronic homelessness. 2
- Other Resources and Reports 2
- AMOs Remarks and Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs on 2
- Bill 185 Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act 2024 2
- AMOs Submissions to the Ministers of Municipal Affairs and Housing and Energy Bill 185 2
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act and Responses to Various ERO and Regulatory Registry Postings 2
- For more information 2
- Brian Lambie AMO Media Contact 416-729-5425 lambieredbrick.ca 2
- Key Facts 2
- There are 200000 Ontarians waiting years for 2
- Significantly more supportive housing units are 2
- Decades of provincial neglect 2
- Social assistance rates have not kept pace 2
- 45 of Ontario tenants spend over 30 of 2
- By 2025 approximately 160000 2
- Lack of federal investment and support 2
- The Parliamentary Budget Officer found 2
- Growing numbers of asylum seekers are 2
- Federal funding of 1.1 billion over three 2
