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Media
advisory
November 28, 2004
NHHN housing report card to
be released:
Hundreds from Ontario,
Quebec to join
housing housing
at national summit * Nov. 29
NDP Leader Jack
Layton, Bloc housing critic Christian Simard join advocates to build straw
bale house
GATINEAU (Quebec): Hundreds of homeless
people, low-income tenants and housing advocates will arrive in buses from
Toronto, Montreal, Sherbrooke, Chateauguay and other locations for a rally
for social housing at the federal-provincial-territorial housing
ministers’ national summit at the Chateau Cartier Hotel at 1170
Aylmer Road in Gatineau starting at 1.30 p.m. They will be joined by
supporters from Ottawa and Gatineau. The group will build a straw bale
house to symbolize the need for a new national social housing strategy.
Federal, provincial and
territorial housing ministers last met in April of 2003 in Winnipeg. At
the end of that meeting, they pledged to “better focus resources on low
and moderate income people and families, those who most need affordable
housing.” Since then, effective political pressure from the National
Housing and Homelessness Network and other national housing groups,
including the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Canadian Housing
and Renewal Association, Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada,
National Aboriginal Housing Association and the National Working
Group on Women and Housing has convinced senior levels of government
to ramp up housing spending, but the progress is still painfully short of
the commitments made by housing ministers three years ago when they signed
the Affordable Housing Framework Agreement. The NNHN will release its
latest national housing report card on Monday.
Speakers at the rally will
include NDP leader Jack Layton, Bloc Quebecois housing critic
Christian Simard and representatives of leading national housing
groups.
For more information, contact TDRC
at tdrc@tdrc.net
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