Friday, July 15, 2011

Social Housing wait list growing

The Champion reported July 14th on last week's Halton Region report released by the health and social services committee showing that the wait list for social housing increased dramatically in 2010 to 2,140 applicants. It is suggested the economic downtown may be responsible for the 9.6% increase over 2009. The article by Christina Commisso indicates that on average applicants wait three years before being placed in a rent-geared-to-income unit. If all applicants stayed on the list it would take 27 years to house them all. It also reinforces our own HSH-M project findings that there are very few one bedroom apartments available for rent.

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