Poor back of line for housing
The study says that it would take 16 years to find housing for everyone in the GTA if abuse victims were added to the chronological list. | ||||||||
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If the long wait lists for social housing across the province weren’t proof enough, a new report shows that the chronological system used to place families in homes is failing the poor.
Families living in poverty are being bumped down on the first-come-first-served municipal lists by families escaping domestic abuse, who leapfrog to the front of the line because of a provincial policy that gives them priority.
According to a new study, 70 per cent of applicants give up when they can’t find housing within four years and drop off the list.
The study, by a task force of social housing advocate groups and municipalities, shows that annually, fewer than half of the subsidized units in the GTA go to the low-income residents. On average, their names will languish on wait lists for a minimum of five years before getting a unit.
Battered families, who represent only 4 percent of social housing applicants, are getting 43 percent of the units, most of them within six months.
Families living in poverty are being bumped down on the first-come-first-served municipal lists by families escaping domestic abuse, who leapfrog to the front of the line because of a provincial policy that gives them priority.
According to a new study, 70 per cent of applicants give up when they can’t find housing within four years and drop off the list.
The study, by a task force of social housing advocate groups and municipalities, shows that annually, fewer than half of the subsidized units in the GTA go to the low-income residents. On average, their names will languish on wait lists for a minimum of five years before getting a unit.
Battered families, who represent only 4 percent of social housing applicants, are getting 43 percent of the units, most of them within six months.
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