readings

on OurHomes, OurSelves.



  • Rent supplements help, but only if landlords cooperate; By Nick Falvo, M.A.

  • Tied in Knots: Unlocking the Potential of Social Housing Communities in Toronto

  • The Trouble with Housing for Low-Income People from CCPA monitor

  • Sustaining Ontario's Subsidized Housing by Supporting Non-Profit Organizations Sally Turner

  • sensationalism versus cause and solution

  • A useful Star article about abandoned buildings which should be put to other uses.

  • Ballantyne's YouTube diatribe

  • Q&A: A HOUSING BENEFIT FOR ONTARIO (from the landlord association; can we buy into this?)

  • Housing Co-operatives in the United Kingdom

  • A Brief History of Rooming Houses in Toronto, 1972-94( very useful about low income housing poblems)

  • The Case for Housing for the Homeless

  • For affordable housing: have Ottawa pay the rent.. by Tom Kent

  • good article about UK housing, from around 2004.

  • The Future Is In Factory-Built Housing, But It's A Tough Sell In Canada

  • Unemployed tenants see work as 'unaffordable' From Inside Housing, UK

  • international discussions about housing coops

  • submission to the LeSage review january 2010

  • The TCHC response to the Lesage report