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Housing and the Ontario Election 2007
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2007
Ontario’s affordable housing crisis remains deep and persistent. More than 600,000 households (that’s more than 1.5 million women, men and children) are in core housing need, and many more are directly affected by a shortage of homes and high housing prices. The affordable housing crisis affects the personal health of individual Ontarians, it disrupts communities and it is a drag on the economic health of the province. The costs of the affordable...
Ten Things you should know about Housing and Homelessness
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2007
Everyone in Canada has the right to a safe, secure, adequate and affordable home. The federal government is obliged in international law to ensure people have a home. That, in short form, is the international right to adequate housing as set out in numerous treaties and other legal instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights o...
National Housing Day 2007: Despite promises, few new homes and scarce dollars
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2007
National Housing Day is November 22, 2007 – which marks the day in 1998 when the mayors of Canada’s biggest cities declared homelessness a “national disaster”. Nine years on, senior levels of government have failed to deliver on agreements and commitments for new housing spending, and few new affordable homes have been built in recent years.
Toronto's 2008 Municipal Budget Needs to "Seed" 10-Year Housing Strategy
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2008
A look at Toronto's 2008 operating budget, its 10-year housing strategy, and the need to reverse urban development trends.
National Housing Report Card
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Organization: The Wellesley Institute
Publication Date: 2008
National Housing Report Card 2008 reveals that the federal government and eight of the thirteen provinces and territories have failed to meet the commitments for new housing funding that they made in November of 2001.
Housing and Homelessness: A look at 21 Ontario cities and communities
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2006
A Powerpoint presentation to a Health Canada workshop on the recent housing environment in Ontario, given on February 6, 2006.
Housing and Health: Making the connections
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2005
A Powerpoint presentation to a workshop on the social determinants of health at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto on December 8, 2005.
Housing and Health: What are the Connections?
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2006
A presentation by Michael Shapcott (2006), making the connection between housing, homelessness and health.
Ripped from the Headlines!!! Housing, Homelessness: Issues and Solutions
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2006
This presentation by Michael Shapcott (2006) provides an overview of urban health issues in Canada, as well as the international context. Also provides historical information about housing/homelessness in Canada, and statistics about Toronto neighbourhoods.
Wellesley Institute's Federal Pre-Budget Backgrounder
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2008
Review of three key federal programs affecting housing and homelessness with a focus on key issues and solutions.
Income inequality, increased housing insecurity, and growing health inequities: an analysis of Statistics Canada's income and housing census figures
Author(s): Michael Shapcott
Publication Date: 2008
A Wellesley Institute backgrounder looking at the income and housing census figures and Canada’s growing income inequality.
Framework for the Blueprint to End Homelessness in Toronto
Author(s): Michael Shapcott, Renee Guerra Salazar
Organization: Wellesley Institute
Publication Date: 2006
Homelessness in Toronto has been growing rapidly, almost six times faster than the overall population. In 1960, there were 900 beds in the city’s shelter system and 1.6 million people living in Toronto. By 2006, Toronto had 4,181 shelter beds in a city of 2.6 million. The face of homelessness is changing as more families and children line-up for shelter. Homelessness is the most visible sign of a larger urban crisis: The lack of affordable housin...
Alternative Budget and Ontario Housing Needs
Author(s): Michael Shapcott, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
The Ontario government spends about 14 cents per person per day on affordable housing — less than half the amount spent in 2000 — even though the province's population and its housing needs continue to grow significantly. The low level of spending means the government has been able to fund only a fraction of the new homes it promised in 2003. And those targets from 2003 were already modest, when set against the desperate province-wide need for...