Gord Perks wanted $11 million to spend it, instead, to establishing a housing watchdog & increasing available rent supplements – on housing initiatives, council should have agreed with him.
they didn’t,
why should they have,
background, currently rent supplements are the key success factor in keeping marginalized low income people in housing and getting those without housing into housing. Unfortunately the low wages earned by many people do not allow the rental of apartments. The Toronto Transitional Housing Allowance Program is the key instrument used by the city to top up the rental amounts these people need, yet with the ever increasing rental rates in Toronto its funding levels does not meet the needs of those in a at risk housing situation or the unhoused.
A quote from the thestar.com,
Council rejected motions from Coun. Gord Perks (Ward 4 Parkdale-High Park) to take $11 million of the $25 million increase and spend it, instead, on housing initiatives — establishing a housing watchdog and increasing available rent supplements to tho
