Federal Election 2008 – Peel Speaks Out
What We Told ThemPeel’s Action on Poverty
- Peel has a portfolio of more than 7,100 social housing units:
- built over 5,700 units between 1979 –1995 (the year when federal housing dollars stopped flowing)
- built 368 units (including 259 seniors units) between 2004 and 2007
- developing 665 new units
- projects include innovative transitional housing, e.g. Peel Youth Village, Angela’s Place
- Working on issues with United Way and other agencies
- Investing over $10 million annually in homelessness prevention, e.g., outreach, shelters, transitional housing
- Providing high-impact programs and services, e.g., low-income seniors’ dental program; new immigrants web portal and research initiative
- Leading edge Families First program for sole support mothers:
- shows that investing the equivalent of one month of social assistance for child care, public health and employment supports results in a decreased dependence on social assistance and employment insurance, and increases earned income and self-sufficiency.
Revised: Tuesday September 23 2008
