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62,000 LONDONERS DON’T HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY
Child and youth poverty has increased 2.2% per year since 2006. That means there are 962 more children on social assistance than in 2006.
A Roadmap to End Poverty
DONT HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO LIVE WITH Child and youth poverty - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
DONT HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO LIVE WITH Child and youth poverty - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
62,000 LONDONERS DONT HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO LIVE WITH Child and youth poverty has increased 2.2% per year since 2006 . That means there are 962 more children on DIGNITY social assistance than in 2006. LONDON FOR ALL A Roadmap to End
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11,000 adults (5% of London) are working poor.
- 11 panel meetings over 6
months
- 100+ meetings across
community
- 1000+ contacts with
Londoners
- Hundreds of touch points
through:
- Structured consultations
- Delegations
- Discussion forums
- Online surveys
- Written submissions
- Meetings
- Emails
- Social media
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TO END POVERTY IN A GENERATION
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IMMEDIATE ACTION PLAN: 8 SECTIONS
- Changing Mindsets
- Income and Employment
- Health
- Homelessness Prevention and Housing
- Transportation
- Early Learning and Education
- Food Security
- System Change
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HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION & HOUSING
- Build a culture of practice around effective implementation of the Housing First
approach.
- Engage landlords in keeping more people housed.
- Invest in housing allowances to support flexible, permanent housing stability for
individuals and families.
- Implement strategies that assist in housing women at risk of or experiencing
homelessness.
- Implement strategies that support housing youth at risk of or experiencing
homelessness.
- Leverage funding and invest in the regeneration of existing London and Middlesex
Housing Corporation (LMHC) properties.
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HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION & HOUSING
- Hello Neighbour program designed to help newcomers, mainly Syrians,
who have been in London for less than a year, by improving their understanding of Canadian rights and responsibilities of tenants
- LUSO Community Services provides cultural sensitivity training and
awareness to landlords, building managers, housing stability staff as well as to non-newcomers in buildings that have recently acquired a high number of Syrian newcomers
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HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION & HOUSING
- Support mixed income and intensification housing development policies to
avoid creating large areas with low-income housing.
- Enhance community safety in social housing.
- Continue to support the evolution of emergency shelters to improve
diversion, rapid housing, and specialization.
- Partner with Indigenous community to create housing plan.
- Coordinate available supports for people transitioning between housing
- ptions.
- Encourage private sector to increase supply of attainable rental housing
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IMPLEMENTING LONDON FOR ALL
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IMPLEMENTING LONDON FOR ALL
- 112 recommendations that will help the community achieve the goal of
ending poverty in a generation
- The success for implementing these recommendations required the
support of the entire community – organized by an implementation body
- London for All identified eight principles to guide the development of an
implementation body
- People with lived experience in poverty are included as key decision makers
at every level; and,
- The implementation body “lives” in the community and has autonomy to
speak to all levels of government.
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WHEN POVERTY IS OVER IN LONDON
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ON A LIFE WITHOUT POVERTY
“With my children it would allow me to be able to have a means to offer them things that I just cannot do now. It doesn’t mean unrealistic things just normal every day things. It would have a sense of comfort to allow me to return back to work and would reinstate our family’s freedom and
- ptions for the future.” ~London mom
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