SERVICES: affordable housing, housing provider, policy, rent bank, rental housing

ABOUT: Jim Watson, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. The ministry works to strengthen Ontario communities by promoting a housing market that serves the full range of housing needs, protects tenants, and encourages private sector building. The ministry also provides opportunities for supportive programs for low-income tenants and housing for special-needs tenants, and supports the creation of affordable housing…

SERVICES: nutrition (food box, meal program); social events; transportation to AIDS-related appointments; furniture bank; administrative services (insurance benefits, income tax); buddy program; case management; service in a foreign language (Portuguese); counselling; support group; library; outreach (gay men, positive youth)
ABOUT: ACT helps prevent HIV infections through education, outreach and community action…

SERVICES: housing search support (emergency, subsidized, private market); eviction prevention assistance; legal representation (tenants); housing registry; workshops (policy)

ABOUT: Action Housing is a charitable organization devoted to assisting low-income individuals and families to find and maintain safe, affordable and adequate rental housing…

SERVICES: food vouchers; bus tickets; document/application assistance; IDU outreach; education; healthy sexuality
ABOUT: Access AIDS Network is a non-profit, community-based charitable organization, committed to promoting wellness, education, harm and risk reduction. Access AIDS Network supports the individual and serves the whole community in a healing response to HIV/AIDS and related health issues…

Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Comparative Program on Health and Society, Munk Centre for International Studies & Wellesley Institute present:

Health, Housing and Human Rights: Exploring the Connections in Canada and Globally Special events with the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing…

SERVICES: community kitchen, emergency shelter, food basket, clothing, furniture, counselling, referral, life skills, employment support, laundry, shower, housing search support, social events, meal program, lunch box, volunteer opportunities

ABOUT: We offer services for people who are experiencing challenges with the basic necessities of daily living. As you browse the pages describing our various ministries, you will discover what we do and why we are so passionate about our work. You may even find ways you want to get involved and make a difference in our community…

HIV is a serious health problem in Ontario. HIV continues to be a life threatening illness with no cure. An estimated 24,891 Ontarians are currently infected with HIV, 8,799 have died, and over 1,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Historically, the populations most at risk of HIV across the province have been…

Maxine Davis, Director of the Dr. Peter Foundation in Vancouver, BC describes the care of people with HIV/AIDS as “complex care,” because the often unstable lives of HIV positive individuals makes it very difficult for them to access or sustain treatment.
“As a health care system we haven’t figured out how to effectively connect and engage people in a sustained way with the treatment…It is because the profile of individuals who have yet to benefit from HIV treatment are individual’s whose lives are made very chaotic by mental illness and addiction,” …

HIV/AIDS and housing instability can often go hand in hand. The cost of treatment, combined with periods of illness and other issues, can make it difficult to make ends meet. Without support, the financial and physical burden of the disease can lead to housing insecurity and sometimes, homelessness. The recent 12-month findings of the Positive Spaces, Healthy Places project show that 42% of research participants…

Rooftops Canada and Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development. HIV, AIDS and Housing Issues. Ottawa and Toronto.

ABSTRACT: Together with the União de Movimento de Moradia em Alagoas (UMM, Brazil), National AIDS Housing Coalition (USA), Red Habitat (Bolivia) and CONGEH (Cameroon) Rooftops Canada hosted a networking event at the WUF 5, held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil titled” Housing, HIV and AIDS: Sharing Knowledge, Making Connections”…