Housing and History
If the nation's mayors are going to beseech Stephen Harper to fund remedies for homelessness, it would help if they knew their own history.
The federal government was in the social housing business in a major way for many, many years under the auspices of the Central Mortgage & Housing Corporation, CMHC.
About the same time that Ottawa abandoned funding for health care (from 50% to 18%), police and the military, funding for social housing was torn out of the CMHC mandate. For the past 30 years, this initiative has not been on the horizon.
Demand of the Prime Minister that CMHC be returned to its former role.
2 comments:
David: You are so right and, while we're at it, we might as well remind the eager supporters of one micro-managing premier and his arrogant team, that Gordon Campbell just happened to be Mayor of Vancouver when the VLC properties "social housing" fiasco was floated...His eager team then? One Jack Poole and, if memory serves me correctly, City Manager, Ken Dobell. The more things change, the more they stay the same - or...Keep voting for the same people and expect a different result???
eggs- actly
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