Ontario has pledged to invest $1 billion to help repair social housing and reduce homelessness and plans to propose new rules restricting access to housing wait-lists, including a cap on how much potential tenants can be worth financially, as part of a community housing renewal strategy released Wednesday. “We are proposing to amend regulations to give community housing providers the authority to refuse to re-house a tenant based on a previous eviction for a serious criminal offence. The announcement, made in Newmarket, also pledges to tackle red tape and ensure faster repairs on existing housing stock. In that 2017 report, the auditor general found that 709 people on the social housing wait-list for one service manager — the report does not specify which one — held assets worth between $500,000 and $999,000. In Toronto, the number of active applications for households looking for social housing — a mix of co-operative housing, Toronto Community Housing properties and private not-for-profit housing — hit 100,515 by the end of 2018, according to the City of Toronto website.

Source: thestar April 17, 2019 13:41 UTC