Background

The City of Kawartha Lakes is the Municipal Service Manager for housing for the County of Haliburton and City of Kawartha Lakes as mandated by the Province of Ontario. The Service Manager responsibilities include the delivery of:

• New affordable housing programs,
• Homelessness prevention and support programs and,
• Financial support and regulation of existing social housing

In 2010, the Province of Ontario issued its Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy and January 1, 2012 updated its social housing administration law, now entitled the Housing Services Act. As part of this new legislative framework, Service Managers are required to complete a local Housing and Homelessness Plan (HHP), approved by the Council of the Service Manager, to be implemented and monitored over a ten-year period starting January 1, 2014. Included at the end of this document is a glossary that explains the various housing and government program terms used in this report