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February 20, 2002 Home
Made Solutions There will be a conference on how to
build quality housing fast during Canada’s worst housing crisis.
Already 150 people have registered – all seeking solutions to
what has evolved as an intractable problem.
The original concept of the meeting was to look at a remedy for the
homeless people in Tent City. Ultimately,
the discussion will revolve around solutions for large numbers of homeless
and underhoused people in Canada. Speakers will include Stevie Cameron (a journalist and coordinator of an
Out of the Cold Program), Rainer Driemeyer “DRI” (a resident of Tent
City), John Sewell (a former mayor of Toronto), Cathy Crowe and Kathy
Hardill (street nurses), Adam Vaughan (a CityTV news journalist), and John
van Nostrand (an architect). This event is sponsored by Christ Church-Deer
Park, North Toronto Churches’ Faith and Justice Network, People and
Organizations in North Toronto (POINT), Project Warmth, and Toronto
Disaster Relief Committee. A highlight of the conference will be the viewing of a house which will
arrive on a large flatbed truck. The house, which will meet building code
standards and will have taken only a few days to complete, is a proposed
solution for people in Tent City. “There are many ways of improving conditions immediately, at the same
time as we work at the longer term solutions,” says John van Nostrand of
Architects Alliance. For more information, contact TDRC at tdrc@tdrc.net -30- |