DRAFT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS the Jatest Federal budget has slashed the planned coumitments for
sactal housing for 1992 from 12445 units to only 8216 units, a decline of 34%
an

WHEREAS the rate of Federal withdrawal from social housing programs has
accelerated alarmingly from a 52% decline in the ten years between 1980 and
1990 (from 31,392 units to 15,130) to an almost comparanle decline in only two
years since then (down 46% since 1990); and

WHEREAS this reduction includes the complete cancellatton of the Co-operative
Housing Program which provides an alternative to the standard form of rental]
tenures an

WHEREAS this decline in social housing allocations represents a tremendous
loss of employment opportunities (in the order of 11,000 jobs) at a time when
the housing industry is facing severe difficulties:

WHEREAS there are 880,000 renter households in Canada in core housing need and
whose housing needs are unable to be served by the private market; and

WHEREAS there are more than 76,000 households on waiting lists for social
housing in thirteen of the big cities alone and probably close to 200,000
households on waiting lists nationally (it is estimated that there are over
100,060 households onthe waiting tists in Ontarto alone): and

WHEREAS Canadians should have the right to adequate and affordable housings
and

WHEREAS a strong Federal presence {n housing programs is assential to ensure
equality of access to affordable housing by all Canadians: and

WHEREAS devolution of housing responsiblity te the Provinces inavitably
results in further devolution to municipalities whose revenue base cannot
Support ongoi ng housing operating subsidy costs and which are presently facing
extraordinary financial pressures themselves as a result of declining transfer

payments; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the communicate by
telegram to the Prime Minister of Canada and area HPs its dismay at the
disregard shown for the low and moderate income hauseholds in this country
who are aither trying te manage on some type of social assistance or penston
or working on Iimited wages that do not perait access to adequate and
affordable housing in the private markets an

BE IY FURTHER RESOLVED that the in the same
communication request the Prime Minister to rescind this reduction to the
social housing programs and, as a minimum, restore the allocations, ineludin
the Co-operative Housing Pregram to the planned level of coumitment an
further, that the Federal Government convene a meeting of federal and

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