Homelessness in Waterloo Region
The Waterloo Region Community Homelessness Network has been restructured and renamed the Waterloo Region Housing and Homelessness Umbrella Group. A website was launched in November 22, 2006. For current information about the activities of the HHUG go to www.hhug.ca
This homelessness webpage will maintain archival material from the Homelessness Network
April 28, 2004
Welcome truce on housing front
Toronto Star: "There are roughly 19,000 vacant rental units in metropolitan Toronto. Yet 3,000 people sleep in emergency shelters most nights. It costs taxpayers an average of $54 a night - $1,620 a month - to keep a person in a homeless shelter. An average bachelor apartment rents for $795 a month. These numbers are forcing politicians, homeless advocates and private landlords to do some hard thinking about the city's affordable housing crisis. And they're beginning to find common ground. With the city's vacancy rate at a 30-year high, they all realize that new questions have to be asked and new alternatives considered."April 21, 2004
Rent Reform
"The Ontario government wants to create a system that works for everyone and provides balanced protection for both tenants and landlords. We want your opinion and ideas on how to do this. We want to know what you think."
April 13, 2004
Homeless women 'crisis'
Toronto Star: "Homeless women in Toronto are dying at 10 times the rate of other women between 18 and 44, according to a new study released today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal."April 09, 2004
Quebec leads the way on welfare
Toronto Star: "The tide turned unexpectedly. Last week the government of Jean Charest - elected to cut Quebecers' taxes, downsize their government and reduce the provincial debt - unveiled the most progressive welfare reform program in the country."