OW / ODSP Changes

Background: a great summary from ISAC  Many questions, few answers, and great risk for people with disabilities

Join the ODSP Action Coalition. And follow their partners:

• Healthcare Practitioners Against Poverty Statement 
• Income Security Advocacy Centre Statement 
• Raise the Rates Statement 

Housing – Too many links to count

ACORN has worked for real affordable housing and inclusionary zoning.
Housing New legislation by Ontario Government means that Rent Control will continue for residential units occupied before November 15, But new rental units will not be subject to rent control.

Housing Action Now—Great resource on housing advocacy in Toronto

Stay Warm – Shelter, Out of the Cold, Tents

• Advocate as a network –  Shelter and Housing Justice Network demanding more and better shelters now and real investment in housing soon.
• Food Advocacy – Shelter Standards

“Disability” is an advocacy tool

People with disabilities have human rights and entitlements. We can speak back to power and review what does and doesn’t work like the Hearing Voices Network did in the Unity Kingdom.
Many organizations advocate for accessibility and inclusion for folks like us who face barriers created by social and discrimination:

• Ontario Peer Development Initiative OPDI “News to go”
• · Empowerment Council
• · Citizens With Disability Ontario (CWDO)
• · Housing Action Now—Great resource on housing advocacy in Toronto
• · Voice of Our Own, Newsletter of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), published four times per year //www.ccdonline.ca/en/publications

Safe Injection Sites / Harm Reduction / Drug Prohibition

• Find schedules at City of Toronto
• Reducing death from opioids may require a #SafeSupply from CAPUD.ca.
• Tablets could be cheaper than injectable treatments…and more