A primer on affordable housing and homelessness

Rent Levels in Social Housing Compared

• Nick Falvo: United Church Women (Feb. 17, 2014)

Who Has Social Housing?

• Nick Falvo: United Church Women (Feb. 17, 2014)

Ottawa’s Waiting List

City of Ottawa’s Centralized Waiting List, 2012
Household Type	# of Households	Median Wait Time (in Years)
Families (with children)	3,665	3.1
Single Adults	3,543	5.4
Seniors	1,965	3.2
2 Adults	522	3.6
3+ Adults	150	2.9

• Nick Falvo: United Church Women (Feb. 17, 2014)

Tenants

• 1/3 of social housing tenants in Ontario are seniors. Most prefer all-seniors buildings, and non-profit housing authorities find them to be very good tenants.
• 10% of Ontario’s stock of social housing is “supportive housing.”

• Nick Falvo: United Church Women (Feb. 17, 2014)

Inadequate Housing, Children in Care

• “Two studies have been done in Toronto looking at the role of housing with respect to children in care. Results of both studies indicate that the state of the family’s housing was a factor in one in five cases in which a child was temporarily admitted into care. Results from the Toronto research also indicate that, in one in 10 cases, housing status delayed the return home of a child from care.”
• — Falvo, 2012

• Nick Falvo: United Church Women (Feb. 17, 2014)

• Developing
• Social Housing

• Nick Falvo: United Church Women (Feb. 17, 2014)