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By: Dick Halverson
https://gleanernews.ca/make-affordable-housing-mandatory/comment-page-1/#comment-22591
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 01:24:30 +0000http://gleanernews.ca/?p=5501#comment-22591After 35 years of consulting on social housing I now believe that public policy change, not only government grants are necessary. Government programs are politically conceived and poorly targeted and implemented. It is time to abandon segregated social housing (buildings), in favour of people, having the opportunity to live integrated in any apartment, townhouse, or other relatively affordable home, funded by shelter allowances or purchase assistance. The buildings are not only unsustainable, they are contributors to generational poverty.
Public policy, including carefully designed inclusionary zoning, tax reform incentives, land trusts, development charge exemptions, and much more are required.
We need to get out of the response to building programs mode into focussing on the serving the long term equity building needs of those in poverty. Buildings are band aids and tools of social segregation (supportive housing excluded).
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By: Darlene Stimeon
https://gleanernews.ca/make-affordable-housing-mandatory/comment-page-1/#comment-22590
Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:47:08 +0000http://gleanernews.ca/?p=5501#comment-22590“Affordable” is very subjective. Witness the folks protesting the new homes that will “only” cost half a million! Please start talking about RGI housing (rent-geared-to-income) as that is a much more meaningful term!