“Homelessness & Affordability Crisis” – Page 44

Refugees sleeping in Toronto churches continue calls for government support

After spending days or weeks living in an emergency shelter at a Toronto church, dozens of asylum seekers and refugees want action from the provincial and federal government.

On Thursday, asylum seekers who have been living at Pilgrim Feast Tabernacles in Etobicoke staged a protest outside Premier Doug Ford’s constituency office at 823 Albion Road. Nadine Miller, a director with the church, says its been housing about 150 people and neglecting bills to pay for their food.

While immigration policies are a federal responsibility, Miller and the church is calling on all levels of government to work together on a solution.

Why can’t they sleep in Tents like Canadian homeless?

by Blazingcatfur•August 27, 2023August 27, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Asylum claimants flooding shelters, social services in Ottawa … Doesn’t Justin have a couple spare rooms now?

OTTAWA – Femi Biobaku came to Canada more than a year ago fleeing persecution from the Nigerian authorities, forcing him to leave his wife, two children, community and job as an accountant back home.

He landed in Ottawa in July 2022 and stayed with a host family for nearly a month before moving into a dorm at the Ottawa Mission homeless shelter, where things took a turn for the worse.

by Blazingcatfur•August 27, 2023August 27, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Cory Morgan: Featuring Home Equity Tax Advocate at Cabinet Retreat Amid Housing Crisis a Troubling Sign

The housing crisis in Canada is getting desperate. Prices for purchases and rentals are skyrocketing across the country and it’s becoming a hot political issue. Young people and citizens on fixed incomes are particularly vulnerable as the cost of living rises. As counterintuitive as it may sound, the Liberal government may be considering imposing an equity tax on primary residences to deal with housing costs.

by Blazingcatfur•August 26, 2023August 25, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hollywood homeless crisis escalates

As rampant homelessness continues to plague the streets and neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a new video sheds light on the issue as it impacts LA’s iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The video, taken earlier this summer, shows dozens of homeless people collapsed and prostrated on the streets of Hollywood, laying on public benches, and lining the streets with makeshift tents.

‘Hidden between the glitz and glamor, homelessness has cast a shadow over the streets,’ says the video’s narrator, as he walks around the neighborhood.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2023August 25, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Hollywood

William Watson: Of course we have a rental crisis. Who would want to be a landlord?

You must pay the rent! I can’t pay the rent! You must pay the rent! I can’t pay the rent!

The internet tells me this classic confrontation between a greedy landlord and a penniless young damsel dates back at least to an 1867 play called “Under the Gaslight.” (Gaslight, indeed!) We boomers had it embedded in our consciousness by the cartoon series “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” which several subsequent generations have probably seen in re-runs.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2023August 24, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Can Canada build 2.2M rental units within a decade?

Building 2.2 million purpose-built rental units in under a decade sounds like an impossible task.

Despite the obvious challenge, a roundtable of housing experts from the private and non-profit sectors is providing the government of Canada with 10 recommendations on how to achieve this goal.

Canada will have to build 5.8 million homes over the next seven years to restore affordability, with 2.2 million of that being dedicated to purpose-built rental, according to an Aug. 15 report by housing experts brought together by the Real Property Association of Canada (REALPAC) and Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness.

“It’s an enormous mountain to climb, given that we’ve only built 570,000 units of rental housing in the last 30 years. We are talking about tripling – almost quadrupling – in seven years what we’ve built in the last 30 years,” said Michael Brooks, CEO of REALPAC, an association of executives in Canadian commercial real estate.

If these numbers are true we are well and truly fecked.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2023August 24, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Chowtown is right on schedule: Tent city Toronto growing again in downtown core

It is hard enough to traverse the downtown core of the city by foot, on two wheels or four.

But try walking through some of its more famous, or now infamous, parks.

We posted during the election that homeless camps would be back bigger and better under Chowreign.

This is what you voted for Chowtowners.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2023August 24, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

The Liberal housing plan is overdue

” …The rapid population growth went a little under the radar because it was not just an increase in permanent immigrants. The number of temporary residents has ballooned. In 2015, there were 352,325 international students. In 2021, the number was 617,250. The following year, 2022, it was 807,260. But there weren’t a lot more student residences and apartments for rent.”

There is no quick fix and they have no plan.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2023August 23, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

“Unlivable”: Minneapolis slips into hellhole status — by default

Alpha News’ Liz Collins calls this a “shocking” video, and it would be — from anywhere else other than Minneapolis or perhaps San Francisco. South Minneapolis had been known as a relatively serene urban area, at least until a few years ago. When the extreme-progressive leadership began capitulating on homelessness, things began to change for residents like Dave Marquardt.

A good video at the link above.

Wall Street denizens fleeing NYC

This news probably wouldn’t be particularly newsworthy were it not for the fact that few in the media have been talking about it. For the past several years, there has been what the New York Post describes as a “giant, sucking sound” coming from the financial sector in New York City. That “whooshing” sound you hear has been caused by more than 150 major financial firms on Wall Street calling it quits and moving to more friendly climes around the country, particularly in the South.

Toronto is among the hardest hit “downtowns” in North Amercia. We too are heading for Hell hole status.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2023August 23, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Urban Dystopia", USA

Most blame Trudeau Liberals for housing shortage

Who is to blame for the housing crisis? Canadians split in poll

Despite what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said recently, a new poll suggests 40 per cent of Canadians think his government is to blame for the country’s housing crisis.

Leger surveyed 1,537 people between Aug. 18 and 20, asking a series of questions about the rising cost of housing and what should be done about it.

I don’t know where they get “Split” from.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2023August 23, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

The Trudeau government doesn’t care about rural Canada

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The summer is almost over, and with it, the massive retreat of urban visitors from the rural areas that are Canada’s summer playgrounds. I see them from June until now on the Trans-Canada Highway nearby, the Ontario licence plates speeding east to Atlantic Canada, or returning back. They may be tourists who decided to pass on Maine or Massachusetts this year, or they are folks from “down home” visiting family and friends before returning “upalong.”

This is self evident in light of the housing crisis Trudeau’s liberal party created and its “effort” to solve it.

The Liberals will not back down on their mass immigration scam which according to their top thinkers will make everyone richer by making everyone poorer.

They know mass immigration will continue to drive up the cost of rent and home ownership.

They also know that no magic wand exists to create new housing and it will be many years before supply meets demand.

The increase in costs is naturally higher in urban centres that attract the most immigrants.

Unfortunately demand is so great the increase in housing costs has spread far beyond urban borders and now small towns feel the same pressures city dwellers do.

However the large urban centres like The GTA and Montreal also happen to be Liberal Party strongholds.

Strongholds they’ll need in order to form yet another minority government with Sell-Out Singh.

Do you think the Liberals are going to trash the Home Equity their most consistent supporters have accrued?

Me neither.

Trudeau’s cronies know their cue: Toronto-area home building shifts into low gear as developers pause or cancel projects

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2023August 23, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Council meeting in affluent San Francisco neighborhood descends into chaos as residents protest turning hotel into homes for 100 homeless people

A local council meeting in an affluent San Francisco neighborhood descended into chaos when hundreds of ‘rowdy’ residents began booing plans to place homeless people in a nearby hotel.

Crowds of angry Millbrae residents packed out their local community hall on Friday to protest ‘Project Homekey’ proposals to house 100 rough sleepers at the La Quinta hotel on El Camino Real, close to the city center.

So many people turned up that hundreds had to stand outside the 300-man capacity hall to hear proposals outlined by San Mateo County Executive Mike Callagy.

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2023August 22, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise"

Liberals created conditions for housing chaos but blame everyone but themselves.

Ottawa considering a cap on international students to ease housing pressure, says Fraser

Canada hosted more than 800,000 international students last year, according to the government’s figures.

“When you see some of these institutions that have five, six times as many students enrolled as they have spaces for them in the building … you’ve got to start to ask yourself some pretty tough questions,” he said.

This “moment of clarity” likely came about because the Globe mentioned publicly that they will shortly be publishing an expose on the abuse of the foreign students program and the Liberals are using the CBC to get ahead of the story.

Don’t forget the LPC have allowed their corporate cronies to import wage slaves on a whim.

Of course it is Junior – Trudeau Says Immigration a ‘Solution’ to Housing Shortage

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2023August 21, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Liberals focus on Housing crisis at cabinet retreat in Charlottetown

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to deliver a new mission for his cabinet at a three-day retreat in Charlottetown this week, in a bid to restore Canadians’ sense of economic security and their confidence in his government.

It is a very different cabinet from the one that last sat in the House of Commons, following a major shuffle in July. Seven of the 38 ministers were replaced entirely and 19 were given new files.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2023August 21, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Small buildings won’t solve the housing crisis. Canada’s cities need to go big

You can’t fix a big problem with a small solution. And yet Canada’s major cities are aiming to do just that.

Toronto changed its planning rules in May to allow new multiplexes – small buildings of up to four apartments. Vancouver is now considering a similar measure. These changes are much too modest. These cities are delivering gentle density when they need to go big.

When I think large scale social housing projects I think Jane-Finch. Why not just shut the immigration door? We have enough problems now why invite more?

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2023August 20, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"