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Changing Times – May 2020

SAFE, SECURE AND AFFORDBALE HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT As I write the May Changing Times report, we are all experiencing the challenges of dealing with COVID-19 and the uncertainty of when it will ease or, hopefully, end. There will also be ...
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Changing Times – April 2020

Safe, Secure and Affordable Housing Is Human Right In a previous article, I mentioned the Working Group to End Homelessness (WGEH), which currently consists of 31 United Nations Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs) who have come together to form the WGEH. The ...
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Changing Times, March 2020

Safe, Secure And Affordable Housing Is A Human Right As we continue to discuss the national campaign theme of safe, secure and affordable housing being a human right, I’d like to focus on the topic of systemic change as it ...
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Changing Times – February 2020

Safe, Secure and Affordable Housing is a Human Right The issue of the need for safe, secure and affordable housing and how it is a major contributor to homelessness is a global one and one that  numerous organizations are addressing. ...
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Changing Times – January 2020

Safe, Secure And Affordable Housing Is A Human Right A 2016 report by the United Nations committee on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights criticized Canada for its “persistent housing crisis”. In 2017 Statistics Canada reported that over 25% of Canadians ...
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Changing Times – December 2019

Social Justice Cross-Conference Teams As we continue to grow the social justice network across Canada, challenges remain at the conference and council level. The revised national statutes of the Society include social justice as a recommended agenda item at every ...
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Changing Times – November 2019

Safe, Secure And Affordable Housing Is A Human Right The October Changing Times https://ssvp.ca/newsletter/ provided background information on the national 3 -year national housing campaign which included the anticipated outcomes of the campaign which align with the four pillars of the 2015-2020 ...
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Changing Times – October 2019

Safe, Secure And Affordable Housing Is A Human Right In March 2019, the SSVP National Council of Canada approved the National Action Committee’s recommendation to conduct a 3-year national housing campaign.  The overarching goal of this campaign will be to ...
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Changing Times – September 2019

Social Justice Project in Calgary Calgary SSVP is pleased to announce that with the support of Theodoric Nowak (Diocese of Calgary) and the full support of Calgary Central Council president Theo van Besouw and vice president David Mayer, we are ...
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