DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
The Daily Bread Food Bank provides food relief programs and also advocacy support related to social issues. Their website is: http://www.dailybread.ca/
The Daily Bread Food Bank has several publications on the various challenges faced by low-income residents related to rental housing and surviving the economic downturn. Check these links below for more information:
1) Housing Benefit For Ontario
http://www.dailybread.ca/PDFS/03_LearningCentre_/Publications/Housing_Benefit_for_Ontario_Final.pdf
2) A Housing Benefit for Ontario: One Housing Solution for a Poverty Reduction Strategy
http://www.dailybread.ca/PDFS/03_LearningCentre_/Publications/Housing-Benefit-Summary.pdf
3) Q&A: A HOUSING BENEFIT FOR ONTARIO
http://www.dailybread.ca/PDFS/03_LearningCentre_/Publications/Housing%20Benefit%20QA-Final.pdf
4) Who’s Hungry: 2009 Profile of Hunger in the GTA
http://www.dailybread.ca/PDFS/03_LearningCentre_/03_PDF9_2009%20DBFB%20WH%20Report.pdf
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THE SCOTT MISSION
The Scott Mission has been offering practical, emotional and spiritual support for thousands of needy people in Toronto since 1941. For more information on the charitable work done by this organization you can visit their website at: http://www.scottmission.com/
This link below contains information on the history and work of The Scott Mission as well as the people in the GTA this organization serves: http://www.scottmission.com/content.php?pages=20071213ID12.php
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Toronto Food Banks phone numbers:
- Daily Bread Food Bank, 416-203-0050
- Foodshare, 416-363-6441
- Fort York Food Bank, 416-203-3011
- North York Harvest Food Bank, 416-635-7771
- Second Harvest, 416-408-2594
All of these publications by the Daily Bread Food Bank are very good. Their publication “Q&A: A Housing benefit for Ontario” is filled with great ideas to assist renters. I was not aware that the Daily Break Food Bank was involved in activities other than providing food to the needy. I sure hope these ideas are given serious consideration by governments. If this initiative is made into law we will have more ‘affordable housing’ available to renters. Since the benefit would be given directly to needy tenants and not the landlord then tenants will have a bit more say in how that benefit can be best used in their meagre budget. I suspect that if the landlord was involved in the process they would probably find a way where they would not apply that benefit to the tenant’s rental costs.
This proposal would definitely help reduce the huge waiting list for subsidized housing. Is anybody in the government listening?