The recent announcement of $1.8 billion over 10 years for the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit will increase access to better quality, stable housing and could decrease homelessness by helping people keep their housing. The joint federal-provincial housing benefit could not come at a better time. The scale of its impact on Toronto’s health will of course depend on how generous the housing benefit is and how many people it will reach. That could ease the pressure on 1-in-10 households on the social housing waiting list. The new housing benefit will not fix everything.

Source: thestar December 30, 2019 19:05 UTC