Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦

President & CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness @CAEHomelessness. Find me on Threads @timrichter2024

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

There should be no limitation period on recognizing the courage of Canadians. Bravo Zulu @CanadianCross & all parties. 🇨🇦
https://t.co/tpQQgLhYmJ

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

We're not going anywhere. @VotetoStayAB
https://t.co/tSHiOfCxhT

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

Voting on whether to have a vote is a ridiculous lack of provincial leadership.

Calgary is a globally connected city. Separation uncertainty is costing us jobs.

We have real work to do: building homes, improving public safety, fixing infrastructure, growing our economy, and making life better.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

I am in a state of dissociative awe by how incredibly stupid, dangerous, and idiotic this all is. Just the inevitable result of a generation of unserious leadership and Conservative and Canadian dysfunction. https://t.co/neFs58aMsI

[Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @timrichter]

@Jeff_Schlemmer_ This project is actually Bridge Housing designed to support moving people in unsheltered homelessness with complex needs into permanent housing rapidly. It’s a pilot of a rapid housing response for unsheltered homelessness we hope to see scaled across the country

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

“We’re all Canadian now.”

Rousing @StephenMarche op-ed in @nytimes - read it to the end.

https://t.co/3XWJ8805sO via @NYTOpinion

#cdnpoli

[Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith]

New essay from Tim Richter and me in the Globe

@MarkJCarney has set the right national goals and has an ambitious agenda to fix housing and homelessness.

But it won’t work if provinces aren’t forced to the table.

Time for Canada Housing Accord
#cdnpoli

https://t.co/mmJHDuLZUg

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Excellent piece by @tylermeredith in the Globe today, calling for what many have been saying for a long time:

We need the federal government to push the provinces (especially Ontario & BC) to fix their housing, land, municipal, and planning systems.

Ontario under Ford has spent nearly a decade shifting the blame to the Feds or local councils for what is largely a provincial responsibility.

We can’t keep poking at this; serious housing reform is needed. If there was serious effort at a national accord here, I would support it. But even without one, the Feds need to apply pressure to Ontario and BC specifically to change.

[Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith]

On Sunday @MarkJCarney @gregorrobertson launched an audacious vision for Build Canada Homes.

This is a historic time for housing policy in Canada.

Next week Carolyn Whitzman, me and Alan Broadbent will talk how to build affordable housing at scale @CANURB

Register (free): https://t.co/d1crgEzrTL

#cdnpoli

[Nick Falvo @nicholas_falvo]

Key findings of a recent US study on homeless encampments:

-Sweeps increase both mortality & spending

-Providing housing saves lives

https://t.co/kz2v3Hqrmu

#EndHomelessness

[Ron Kneebone 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @RonKneebone]

Preventing homelessness is more cost-effective than dealing with the issue after the fact. This requires knowing who is at imminent risk of losing their housing. That is what he Homelessness Income Cut Off (HICO) does. @policy_school @calgaryhomeless
https://t.co/H83uKM2MYO

[Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith]

Just in time for your weekend listening — today @MikePMoffatt @ronmortgageguy and I recorded a Housing Policy @TheHerleBurly Pod that will be up soon.

There is some agreement.

And some arguing.

#cdnpoli #BuildCanadaHomes

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

City count of Torontonians experiencing homelessness has more than doubled from 2021 https://t.co/U5GhUPKMTJ

[Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @timrichter]

Now we’ll have a federal housing Minister with proven leadership on homelessness paired with a hard charging PM @MarkJCarney determined to solve the housing crisis. Big things are possible.

[Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @timrichter]

This is very encouraging news! @gregorrobertson showed real passion & leadership on ending homelessness as Vancouver mayor but was left hanging by the province and Feds at the time

https://t.co/cyYKQ7zIvr. 1/

[Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @timrichter]

An excellent letter from the brilliant @homeless_law to @fordnation on Bill 6. Policies that criminalize homelessness fail to address encampments or community safety. Kudos @Diana_C_McNally for bringing this forward

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Thank you to the National @homeless_law Center in D.C. for this letter to @fordnation re: Bill 6, which criminalizes encampment residents. The U.S. has seen how policies that criminalize homeless people fail to address encampments or community safety. Bill 6 must be rescinded.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Want to send a message to @fordnation and the Ontario government?

Help us tell them that Ontarians need housing — not punishment. That we want a government that protects us from Trump instead of acting like Trump.

Sign and share our petition now: https://t.co/UrzW1NuSw5

[Daniel Foch @danielfoch]

Since 2004, no other G7 country has seen housing affordability deteriorate at the levels seen in Canada:

[CREA | ACI @CREA_ACI]

The rising cost of living, unpredictable mortgage rates, unaffordable rents, rising home prices, and not enough homes, mean more and more Canadians are falling behind.

The Housing Canada Coalition stands ready to partner with the new government on solutions to #EndTheHousingGame – for good.

Read our #elxn45 response: https://t.co/90xwljQd7z

@CAEHomelessness @CHRA_ACHRU @HabitatCanada

[Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa @OttawaAlliance]

The solution to homelessness is housing.

This is why we're one of over 60 organizations who have joined the Encampment Justice Coalition.

Together, we're asking Ontario to rescind Bill 6, the Safer Municipalities Act: https://t.co/W8J7dL3g64