62,000 LONDONERS DON’T HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO LIVE WITH Child and youth poverty has increased 2.2% per year since 2006 . That means there are 962 more children on DIGNITY social assistance than in 2006.
LONDON FOR ALL A Roadmap to End Poverty
• 11 panel meetings over 6 months • 100+ meetings across community • 1000+ contacts with Londoners • Hundreds of touch points through: • Structured consultations • Delegations • Discussion forums 11,000 adults (5% of London) are • Online surveys • Written submissions working poor. • Meetings • Emails • Social media
TO END POVERTY IN A GENERATION
IMMEDIATE ACTION PLAN: 8 SECTIONS • Changing Mindsets • Income and Employment • Health • Homelessness Prevention and Housing • Transportation • Early Learning and Education • Food Security • System Change
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION & HOUSING • Build a culture of practice around effective implementation of the Housing First approach. • Engage landlords in keeping more people housed. • Invest in housing allowances to support flexible, permanent housing stability for individuals and families. • Implement strategies that assist in housing women at risk of or experiencing homelessness. • Implement strategies that support housing youth at risk of or experiencing homelessness. • Leverage funding and invest in the regeneration of existing London and Middlesex Housing Corporation (LMHC) properties.
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION & HOUSING • Hello Neighbour program designed to help newcomers, mainly Syrians, who have been in London for less than a year, by improving their understanding of Canadian rights and responsibilities of tenants • LUSO Community Services provides cultural sensitivity training and awareness to landlords, building managers, housing stability staff as well as to non-newcomers in buildings that have recently acquired a high number of Syrian newcomers
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION & HOUSING • Support mixed income and intensification housing development policies to avoid creating large areas with low-income housing. • Enhance community safety in social housing. • Continue to support the evolution of emergency shelters to improve diversion, rapid housing, and specialization. • Partner with Indigenous community to create housing plan. • Coordinate available supports for people transitioning between housing options. • Encourage private sector to increase supply of attainable rental housing
IMPLEMENTING LONDON FOR ALL
IMPLEMENTING LONDON FOR ALL • 112 recommendations that will help the community achieve the goal of ending poverty in a generation • The success for implementing these recommendations required the support of the entire community – organized by an implementation body • London for All identified eight principles to guide the development of an implementation body • People with lived experience in poverty are included as key decision makers at every level; and, • The implementation body “lives” in the community and has autonomy to speak to all levels of government.
WHEN POVERTY IS OVER IN LONDON
ON A LIFE WITHOUT POVERTY “With my children it would allow me to be able to have a means to offer them things that I just cannot do now. It doesn’t mean unrealistic things just normal every day things. It would have a sense of comfort to allow me to return back to work and would reinstate our family’s freedom and options for the future.” ~London mom
FOR A CITY TO BE TRULY GREAT, IT MUST BE GREAT FOR EVERYONE
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