The Human Right to Adequate Housing in Canada: Canada's Compliance With the International Covenant to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, With a Focus on Homelessness
Description:
In the aftermath of a Toronto rooming house fire that killed ten residents on December 23, 1989, concerned citizens and social agency staff who work with the homeless began to campaign for improved conditions in the City's rooming houses. This group came to be known as the Rupert Hotel Coalition, named after the rooming house in which the ten men and women died. The Ontario government sponsored an innovative Rupert Hotel Coalition Pilot Project (1991/1993) aimed at improving and rehabilitating several hundred rooming house units. However, there has been no follow-up and two years ago the Ontario Government took back an approximately $1 million fund which had accumulated for improving rooming house conditions. Rupert Community Residential Services of Toronto Inc. is the legally incorporated community-based non-governmental organization (NGO) which carries on the work of the Rupert Coalition. Our Board of Directors includes rooming house residents, owners, social service providers, and housing specialists. (excerpt from the document)
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
1998
Location:
Toronto