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1. Please Help us Save Our Homes! 
Carruthers Road Co-operative is a housing Co-operative located in Georgetown, Ontario CANADA, whose Membership is made up of private local business owners, retired persons, immigrant families, single parent families, disabled persons, working families and single working people.
A full one-half of our Co-operative Units are subsidized while the other half pay full market rent. We are guided by the Corporations Act and work within our own Co-operative By-laws.
CMHC (The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation) is the government body that is responsible for aproving funds and making decisions on upgrades and renovations for our cooperative.
We have been waiting for approved retrofit funding for over a year and to date there has been extremely limited movement from CMHC on this issue. In the meantime, we continue to suffer from existing health and safety issues and added degradation of the building. Without a resolution our community will face a housing crisis!
2. Don't put Whitgift in the dark
We call for the development to be rejected because:
• The drastic loss of sun and daylight to residents in Whitgift House will place some residents in permanent darkness in the winter, increase their fuel and light bills, and have serious consequences for their quality of life
• The loss of sunlight and daylight to the Lambeth High Street Recreation Ground will have a detrimental effect on the quality of the park especially in winter months
• Less than 10% of the development is being put aside for affordable homes. This borough needs more social and affordable housing and not more housing for millionaires!
• The 138 exclusive car parking spaces are completely unnecessary in an area which has some of the best access to public transport in London and will increase traffic noise and pollution in local streets
We want a development that respects local residents, the amenities and character of our neighbourhood, including the listed buildings and other heritage assets of this area.
As campaigning ahead of May’s national elections hots up in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, social housing is facing the squeeze.
Housing budgets have already been cut across the board and the immediate future appears far from bright for those who rely on social or affordable housing.
It is against this background that we launch House Proud - Devolved - a new stage in our campaign to ensure politicians and decision-makers in The Senedd, Holyrood and Stormont understand housing’s importance.
House Proud was a joint initiative from Inside Housing and the Chartered Institute of Housing, run ahead of the 2010 general election. Its aim was to shout about housing’s crucial contribution to every aspect of social policy. Almost 300 hundred people signed a petition in support of the campaign, the three main political parties included housing pledges in their election manifestos and their leaders pledged their support.
Now, the campaign seeks to prove housing’s case in the devolved nations. Once again we will focus on the significant financial and practical benefits the sector delivers to areas including health, education, anti-social behaviour and sustainability.
We believe that government plans to cut the £21 billion housing benefit bill risk driving thousands of vulnerable people from their homes and into poverty.
The emergency Budget in June said the government would introduce:
• Housing benefit limits of £250 for a one-bed property and £400 for four or more bedrooms.
• Local housing allowance rates set using the bottom 30 per cent of rents rather than the median from October 2011. It will be linked to the consumer price index, rather than the retail price index. There are 1 million LHA claimants in the UK.
• Cutting housing benefit by 10 per cent for claimants on jobseekers allowance for more than a year.
The aim of our campaign is to find a fairer way of reducing the housing benefit bill.
5. Support the House Proud campaign
House Proud is about making the case for housing. A joint campaign from Inside Housing magazine and the Chartered Institute of Housing, its aim is to shout about housing’s crucial contribution to every aspect of social policy; to provide the stats, stories and case studies which prove beyond doubt that successful lives are founded on decent housing; and to present data which persuade whoever wins the keys to Number 10 later this year that cutting the housing budget is a foolhardy move certain to increase pressure on the vote-winning budgets they seek to preserve.
BC government continues to cancel funding for social housing units. BC government introduced new welfare rules cutting benefits to many and creating punitive barriers to those needing welfare. Yet welfare rates are 25% lower than in 1995, once inflation is factored in.
The three biggest factors for homelessness:
* The Federal Govt. pulling out of an "annual" social housing program.
*Provincial barriers to accessing welfare and welfare rates that don't meet basic needs.
*The loss of affordable rental housing due to redevelopment.
And do you know who is in charge of this in BC?
Rich Coleman.
And do you know what Mr. Coleman did before becoming a politician?
He was in Real Estate! He knows the value of the land and likes development, no matter who suffers in the face of progress!
