City hopes to draw attention to housing gap with new poster
Posted September 5, 2013 1:38 pm.
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TORONTO – Officials with the City of Toronto and Toronto Community Housing have unveiled a new poster for their “close the housing gap” campaign.
The initiative is meant to bring attention to a growing need for clean, safe and affordable housing in our city.
Campaign co-chair Coun. Ana Bailao said officials hope this will help drive the message home to the provincial and federal governments that they need to invest in social housing.
“We want to have safe and good communities, and for that we need people to have good and affordable housing, and the only way we’re going to do that is by tackling this issue,” Bailao said.
“We have 86,000 households on a waiting list for housing, and we have a backlog in our public housing of over $750-million of repair backlogs,” she added.
The campaign is calling on the federal government to stop withdrawing money from social housing, and have the provincial government treat social housing providers fairly when paying social assistance rent rates.
The posters will be put up across the city starting on Sept. 9.
Click here for more details about the campaign.
Coun. Ana Bailão discusses the campaign in the video below:
