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Publishing date: Apr 14, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 2 minute read
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Steve Clark, the Brockville-area Conservative MPP and provincial minister of municipal affairs and housing, and Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy have co-written a letter to federal Liberal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Ahmed Hussen looking for financial support from the federal government for three Ontario housing projects, one of which is located in Kingston.
Last November, Clark and Lisa MacLeod, minister of heritage, sport, tourism and culture industries, announced in Kingston that the Ontario government had pledged $200,000 for the Home for Heroes Foundation to contribute to building 25 tiny homes for military veterans in Kingston who experience homelessness.
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Ontario housing programs are failing to meet demand: FAO
The province s financial watchdog says the need for affordable housing and the homelessness crisis will worsen by 2025 By Julia Mastroianni
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Demand for housing in Ontario will increase by over 80,000 households from 2018 to 2027 due to insufficient provincial and federal funding for housing and homelessness programs, according to a Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) report released on Thursday.
Ater accounting for expiring funding, the province’s financial watchdog said that even with new commitments under the National Housing Strategy (NHS), Ontario’s annual spending on housing programs will be consistently lower than 2018-2019 spending until 2024-2025.