{"id":331,"date":"2019-09-23T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willbouma.ca\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:11:31","slug":"ontario-making-community-housing-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willbouma.ca\/ontario-making-community-housing-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Making Community Housing Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>September 23, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ontario Making Community Housing Safer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Helping housing providers keep\nevicted criminals out of the system<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TORONTO<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2015 Ontario is protecting\npeople who live in community housing, especially vulnerable seniors and\nchildren, by allowing housing providers to turn away tenants who have been\nevicted from community housing for serious crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our\ngovernment is sending a clear message that dangerous criminal activity is not\nwelcome in community housing,&#8221; said Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal\nAffairs and Housing. &#8220;People shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about their\nchildren&#8217;s safety when they&#8217;re playing right outside their front door.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While\ncommunity housing providers can evict tenants for serious crimes like drug\ntrafficking, harming individuals or damaging property, some simply re-apply to\nlive in the same building. Starting today, housing providers have the\ndiscretion to turn away prospective tenants who have been evicted from\ncommunity housing for these illegal activities and who pose a threat to the\ncommunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur\ngovernment is taking real action to ensure that Ontarians have access to good,\nsafe and affordable housing,\u201d said Brantford-Brant MPP Will Bouma. \u201cThese\nchanges will help keep people living in community housing safer from those\ninvolved in serious criminal activity to the benefit of themselves, their\nfamilies and the whole community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is just&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mag\/en\/2019\/08\/ontario-supporting-more-communities-in-their-fight-against-guns-and-gangs.html\">one\nof many measures<\/a>&nbsp;the Ontario government is taking to protect innocent families from\nviolence related to drugs, guns and gang activity, while making sure that all\nOntarians have a safe and affordable place to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick Facts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Community safety is an important part of Ontario\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/community-housing-renewal-strategy\">Community      Housing Renewal Strategy<\/a>, the province\u2019s plan to sustain, repair and grow our community housing system.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>More than 250,000 families live in community housing in Ontario.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ontario has over 1,000 community housing\n     providers, including non-profits, housing co-operatives and\n     municipalities. All are essential in the development, delivery and ongoing\n     sustainability of community housing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional\nResources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>This is part of a range of initiatives Ontario is acting on\n     from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mah\/en\/2019\/09\/ontarios-community-housing-renewal-strategy-putting-people-first.html\">Ontario\u2019s\n     Community Housing Renewal Strategy: Putting People First<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please call (519) 759-0361 or <a href=\"mailto:will.bouma@pc.ola.org\">will.bouma@pc.ola.org<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 23, 2019 Ontario Making Community Housing Safer Helping housing providers keep evicted criminals out of the system TORONTO&nbsp;\u2015 Ontario is protecting people who live in community housing, especially vulnerable seniors and children, by allowing housing providers to turn away tenants who have been evicted from community housing for serious crimes. &#8220;Our &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario Making Community Housing Safer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/willbouma.ca\/ontario-making-community-housing-safer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario Making Community Housing Safer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ontario Making Community Housing Safer - WillBouma.ca<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/willbouma.ca\/ontario-making-community-housing-safer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ontario Making Community Housing Safer - WillBouma.ca\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 23, 2019 Ontario Making Community Housing Safer Helping housing providers keep evicted criminals out of the system TORONTO&nbsp;\u2015 Ontario is protecting people who live in community housing, especially vulnerable seniors and children, by allowing housing providers to turn away tenants who have been evicted from community housing for serious crimes. &#8220;Our ... 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