ONTARIO: Rental housing crisis looms, group says
Canadian Press - November 5, 1999
TORONTO — Hundreds of thousands of tenants are at risk of losing their
homes in communities across Ontario as a result of a "full-blown [rental]
housing crisis," a group of former housing ministers said yesterday.
A study by the members of Housing Again (former federal housing minister
Alan Redway, former Ontario housing minister John Sweeney and former
Ottawa mayor Marion Dewar), says the federal and provincial governments
have shirked their responsibility to build affordable housing, putting
lower-income tenants at risk.
The group says the lack of federal and provincial help with affordable
housing places an "impossible burden" on municipalities.
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