Housing

Impact on Toronto:

“Access to safe and affordable housing is a basic human right that should be available to all. With the threats of higher cost of living and economic hardship, affordable housing will continue to become more and more a dream than reality for many more families who will be forced to live in substandard conditions.”
— Neil Hetherington, CEO, Habitat for Humanity Toronto

Why it matters:

Housing is a basic human right. However, if our housing costs over 30% of our total income, too many of us don’t have enough for food, clothing, education, recreation or other basic needs.

• The Toronto Region offers one of the most severely unaffordable housing markets in the world, ranking 75th least affordable among 325 markets surveyed.
• In May 2011, the number of eligible households on the waiting list for social housing stood at 66,460, up 10.4 per cent from May 2010, and a 34.3 per cent increase since 2008.

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