The provincial funding is part of the government's $510 million investment to help protect the health and safety of the province's most vulnerable people. Funding will be delivered through the Social Services Relief Fund and will be used to support homeless shelters, create or renovate more than 1,500 housing units and expand rent support programs.
"To build better housing and stronger communities, Indigenous voices need to be front and centre. Follow along as we share our vision for a National Urban, Rural and Northern Housing Strategy."
On October 8, 2020, Habitat for Humanity hosted a discussion with the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Evan Siddall, President and CEO of CMHC to talk about the National Housing Strategy and the new Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI).
Join us for one of two discussions on the draft Terms of Reference for our Caucus.
The AHMA is asking that the Canadian Government take concrete steps to adopt strategies to ensure access to adequate, affordable housing for all Indigenous peoples, not only the ones who fit into colonialized categories of what it is to be Indigenous.
The Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI) will help address urgent housing needs of vulnerable Canadians by rapidly creating new affordable housing. The initiative will also help support Canada’s economic recovery by creating employment in the housing and construction sectors.
In addition to this substantial investment in housing, the Government of Canada will provide $236.7 million through Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy to help extend and expand the emergency response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This funding is in addition to the $157.5 million announced in April 2020 to help communities address the immediate impacts of the pandemic.
The Government of Canada will be announcing a major new initiative under the National Housing Strategy.
On this page you'll find some resources on income support and the CERB including journal articles, a briefing note and policy backgrounder, and news stories.
On July 28, 2020, The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and the Social Planning Research Council of Hamilton released their report entitled “Revisioning Coordinated Access: Fostering Indigenous Best Practices Towards a Wholistic Systems Approach to Homelessness”.
The Indigenous Homelessness Circle 