Hi there,
On yesterday's Mid-Ontario Rural Convenor Call, group members each shared housing and homelessness trends in their communities and interventions that are and aren't seeing success.
You can now access the meeting recording (passcode zXC^M1@$).
Interventions being employed:
- Awareness-raising amongst home owners about challenges faced by non-owners.
- Data collection through community surveys and energy poverty mapping to inform decision-makers, such as Bruce Grey's Indicator Report.
- Municipalities generating funding pots incentivizes developers and home-owners to create or rehabilitate affordable housing units, such as in Kawartha-Haliburton.
- Bylaw changes can reduce barriers to affordable housing, such as in Bruce County.
- Homeless Enumeration, By-Names List, Coordinated Access are mandated for all communities by the province. The By-Names database provides a lot more useful information than just the number of people experiencing homelessness.
- Safety & Wellbeing partnerships can support pre-existing Housing Task Force priorities.
- A Community Renewal Corporation will develop and manage affordable housing and community hubs by collaborating with community groups in Perth-Huron.
- A drop-in program offering showers and hot meals to people who are unsheltered or precariously housed also provides more touch points with social service agencies, including being added to the By-Names list, in North Perth.
- Rent subsidies, Community Legal Clinics, and paramedics are preventing evictions
- Forming stronger inter-agency relationships based on the model of Indigenous sharing circles, such as Giiwe, helps to achieve outcomes.
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We look forward to speaking with you on the next call, scheduled for October 12, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
Sincerely,
Natasha and the Communities Ending Poverty Team