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TDRC Media Releases |
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October
1, 2002 Information
Picket of HOMELESS DEPOT Home Depot Head Office and Store On Wednesday October 2, at 12 noon, Tent City
residents, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee and supporters will hold an
information picket at the Home Depot head office and store. The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee is calling on
Home Depot to: 1. Treat Tent City residents with respect. Give them access to their dwellings. Protect their property and their homes. Help them move or store portable structures. Help residents salvage the homes that cannot be moved. 2. Acknowledge the error of their ways. Home Depot should make amends by offering $50,000 per unit in capital funding for construction of 55 units of new social housing – the same number of units that were on the Tent City site – for a total bill of $2.75 million. 3.
Adopt the One-Percent Solution. A growing number of groups,
including socially responsible corporations, are calling on the Canadian
government to restore housing programs that were cancelled in the 1990s.
Home Depot should be an active partner in the One Percent Solution, the
campaign for a fully-funded national housing program. For more information, contact TDRC at tdrc@tdrc.net -30- |