Submitted by: Maytree
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Table of Contents
- Maytree 77 Bloor Street West Suite 1600 Toronto ON M5S 1M2 CANADA 1
- 1-416-944-2627 1
- ISBN 978-1-928003-70-0 Maytree 2024 1
- Maytrees recommendations 2
- Strengthening income supports 2
- Making housing more affordable to people who need it most 3
- Being accountable for economic and social rights 3
- The situation An adequate standard of living is out of reach 3
- The way forward Maytrees recommended approach 4
- Recommendations to strengthen the income security system 4
- 1. Improve the Canada Disability Benefit CDB by raising the benefit amount 4
- 2. Better support low-income working-age adults by adding a floor amount to 5
- 3. Better support all low-income people by enhancing the GSTHST credit by 5
- Recommendations to make housing more affordable 5
- 4. Enhance and expand the Canada Housing Benefit so that more renters can 5
- 5. Fully and immediately implement Budget 2024s housing commitments 6
- 6. Prioritize creating affordable units in all supply initiatives. 6
- Recommendations to improve accountability for human rights 7
- 7. Further the domestic implementation of Canadas international 7
- 8. Ground social programs in a rights-based framework starting by 7
- 9. Create new measurement tools that will better gauge progress toward the 7
