Send a Postcard to Dalton McGuinty Asking About the 1% Increase in Social Assistance Rates
Dalton McGuinty’s government has increased social assistance rates by 1% – but grocery store prices alone have increased by 5% in the past year. Write to Dalton McGuinty using the postcard linked below to ask why the increase was so low.
Pathway to Potential’s Volunteer Projects
Pathway to Potential is currently seeking volunteers that are interested in promoting poverty issues throughout Windsor and Essex County. Pathway to Potential needs volunteers that are interested in journalism, blogging, photography, videography, event planners, and researchers to help us bring awareness to poverty issues.
Click here to learn more about Pathway to Potential’s Volunteer Projects.
Join Voices Against Poverty
Windsor-Essex Voices Against Poverty, since forming in the late Spring of 2009, have been working to raise public awareness about the experiences of people living in poverty. They are also proposing concrete solutions that will lift people out of poverty. The Voices group has been working collaboratively with Pathway to Potential, as well as with provincial advocacy groups, to engage the broader community in a collective poverty reduction effort.
To join Voices Against Poverty, contact us at: voices@pathwaytopotential.ca
Take The “Do The Math” Survey
Start by taking the survey and Do the Math. What would you need to make ends meet if your situation changed and you had to rely on social assistance? If you were a single person on social assistance, what would you need?
Take the survey here: http://dothemath.thestop.org/survey.php
Social Assistance Review
It’s time for a review of social assistance that results in the kind of transformation that promotes economic security – because that’s how poverty will be reduced. E-mail the Government About the Social Assistance Review
Inclusionary Housing: Creating Affordable Housing by Harnessing the Power of Private Development
Inclusionary housing programs are municipal programs that rely upon the development regulations and approval process to have private developers provide some portion of the housing within their new market projects as affordable housing.
This is a proven tool in the United States that has created tens of thousands of affordable housing units in hundreds of big cities and small towns as diverse as Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Burlington, Vermont. These communities have implemented programs that have increased the supply of affordable housing, engaged a development industry that still makes a healthy return on investment, and created healthy, diverse, vibrant neighbourhoods.
The Inclusionary Housing Working Group (a project of the Wellesley Institute) has created a web site that has a lot of great information about how Inclusionary Housing works and is calling on the province of Ontario to make Inclusionary Housing a part of the Long Term Affordable Housing Strategy.
Visit the web site at:www.inclusionaryhousing.ca
While you are there send a message to Jim Bradley, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, indicating your support for Inclusionary Housing. And become an endorser of the Inclusionary Housing Working Group’s statement.