You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. There was a time when Torontonians didn’t need to fight for our right to housing. Most of us took for granted that we could secure a home without skimping on food or essentials. Opinion by Joy Connelly
Torontonian has an affordable, habitable, accessible and secure home. Our network includes human rights experts, people working on the ground across Toronto, and people who have themselves been precariously housed or homeless. We share a belief that a home is the essential foundation for health and well-being, and for exercising other rights: to safety, food security, employment, education, privacy and even life itself.
to affirm the human right to housing and advance seven such steps toward making Toronto a fairer and more equitable city for all. For example, we know it’s much easier to stay housed than it is to re-enter the housing market after you’ve become homeless. Expanding the city’s successful Eviction Prevention in the Community program, the Rent Bank and the Tenant Support Fund can keep tenants housed at a fraction of the cost of a shelter stay.
We know it is cheaper and faster to buy older, affordable apartment buildings — and keep them affordable through co-op or non-profit ownership — than to build new from scratch. Last year, the city piloted a Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program to keep rental properties affordable forever. Let’s build on that success.
We know that city inspectors typically inspect a building’s common areas, but rarely the apartments where tenants actually live. Toronto needs protocols to ensure tenants have an active voice in the evaluation of their homes, and enough bylaw enforcement officers to do the job.
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