Call to Action on Housing and Homelessness
The provincial government’s assertion that the housing supply crisis can be solved by limiting municipal access to infrastructure financing, eliminating environmental protections or changes to municipal governance is unsound. Ontario has seen successive provincial governments favor income tax cuts over investments in people and downloading of expenditures on property taxpayers to conceal provincial underspending.
In 2023, people in big cities, small towns and rural communities across Ontario are seeing the direct results of these provincial policies and choices by successive provincial governments over the past three decades.
Hearing from municipal councils and members of the public in your communities will be a critical part of calling on the provincial government for action on housing and homelessness.
To support this effort, AMO is encouraging municipal governments and District Social Service Administration Boards to support the messages in AMO’s Pre-Budget Submission.
To help with this effort, municipalities, DSSABs, and municipal associations are asked to consider passing a Council resolution in advance of or close to the provincial budget, on March 23, 2023.
AMO is also inviting elected officials and municipal staff to attend an in-person Ending Homelessness Symposium on May 3 & 4, 2023. Check out our events page for more information on the program topics and how to register.
A media toolkit has also been developed:
- News Release template
- Suggested text and graphics for social media posts
- Key Messages to use when writing to or meeting with local MPPs in advance of the provincial budget.
For more information please contact Amber Crawford (acrawford@amo.on.ca) on housing, or Michael Jacek (mjacek@amo.on.ca) on ending homelessness.
