[Wamvan] housing for all efforts

[jana g]

Please respond in whatever ways you can in order to push forward a 'Housing
for All' - national housing plan for everyone living in Canada.

Thanks in advance for any assistance WAMVAN can provide in this regard.
In kind regards,   Jana G

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In the spring of 2010, several individuals and the Centre for Equality
Rights in Accommodation filed a landmark legal challenge at the Ontario
Superior Court. The ‘Right to Housing challenge’ argues that the
governments of Canada and Ontario are in violation of the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms for their failure to address, and their contribution to, the
growing crisis of homelessness and inadequate housing. Almost 10,000 pages
of expert witness evidence were submitted to support this case on National
Housing Day in the fall of 2011.

The governments of Canada and Ontario have responded by seeking to have the
case struck, before the evidence can be heard by a judge.

On Monday, May 27th and Tuesday, May 28th, Fay Faraday, Peter Rosenthal and
the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario will argue that the case must
proceed.

Amnesty International & the Economic Social and Cultural Rights Network,
The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights and the Income Security
Advocacy Centre, Charter Committee on Poverty Issues, Justice for Girls, &
Pivot Legal Society are acting as intervenors in the case. They believe the
challenge should be allowed to continue and will offer important
information to the Court.

This case is historic: The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation and
the individual applicants - who have experienced poverty and homelessness,
are asking for more than the simple right to shelter. They hope that the
Court will declare that homelessness and inadequate housing violate the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that the government must develop a
national strategy to end homelessness.

Stand up for housing and human rights by attending this court appearance.
We can send the message that adequate housing is a human right and that
this vitally important legal challenge should move forward!

*The motions will be heard on Monday, May 27th and Tuesday the 28th at the
Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. We will update
http://righttohousing.wordpress.com with the address and courtroom number
when it is confirmed.*

Legal materials from the case are available on the ACTO website

Thank you for supporting the right of everyone to adequate housing.
righttohousing | May 21, 2013 at 1:34 pm
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