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1. U of T, November 14, 2006
Housing and health:
What are the
connections?
Michael Shapcott
Senior Fellow, The Wellesley Institute
1
2. What we know (micro). . .
1. Lack of good quality, affordable
housing affects personal health
➡ homelessness, insecure housing leads to
higher morbidity and higher mortality
2. Subsidized housing is key factor in
helping the homeless become housed
➡ subsidized housing leads to being
housed
2
3. …and we also know (macro)
3. Housing insecurity causes social and
economic problems for communities
➡ Poor housing leads to social problems,
higher taxes, diminished competitiveness
4. Subsidized housing is a good
investment in people and communities
➡ Subsidized housing leads to new homes,
good jobs, economic stimulation
3
4. Prerequisite for health
WHO’s Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986)
lists the fundamental conditions and resources for
health as:
peace,
shelter,
education,
food,
income,
a stable eco-system,
sustainable resources,
social justice, and equity
4
5. Homelessness and health
“Specific health effects of homelessness and underhousing
are difficult to separate from often-associated effects of
poverty, unemployment, pre-existing mental and physical
disabilities, and age-related vulnerabilities in children and
the elderly. . .”
“The health effects of homelessness include:
cold injury [hypothermia and frostbite];
cardio-respiratory disease [coronary artery disease, high blood
pressure, emphysema]
tuberculosis;
skin problems [infected and ulcerated lesions];
5
6. Health effects of homelessness
nutritional disorders [leading to a greater risk for
infectious diseases, gastrointestinal disorders, skin
disease and nervous system dysfunction];
sleep deprivation [leading to instability, emotional
irritability, concentration deficits, cognitive
impairment, apathy and behaviour disorders];
children’s mental health disorders [leading to
developmental lags, anxiety, depression, learning
difficulties];
adult psychiatric disorders; and
chronic stress [including insomnia, anxiety,
depression, loss of self-esteem and withdrawal].”
Public inquiry into homelessness and health, 1987
6
7. Morbidity and mortality
“Homeless women and men do not have
‘different’ illnesses than general population.
However, their living circumstances and
poverty affect their ability to cope with health
problems.” - Street Health Report, 1992
Homeless women and men have mortality
rates 8 to 10 times higher than housed
women and men - Dr. Stephen Hwang
7
8. Housing and health (1984)
“Inadequate accommodation is not sole
solution to health problems among Toronto’s
poor, but being homeless or living in
unaffordable or substandard housing makes it
difficult, if not impossible, to engage in many
practices that promote health. Moreover,
inadequate housing fosters stress which
lowers physical resistance to disease and
exacerbates pre-existing emotional strains.”
Housing and Health: Public Health Implications of the Crisis in Affordable
Housing, Toronto Department of Public Health, 1984
8
9. Dr Charles Hastings, 1918
“Every nation that permits people to remain
under fetters of preventable disease and
permits social conditions to exist that make it
impossible for them to be properly fed, clothed
and housed so as to maintain a high degree of
resistance and physical fitness; and, who
endorses a wage that does not afford
sufficient revenue for the home, a revenue
that will make possible development of a
sound mind and body, is trampling on a
primary principle of democracy.”
9
15. Homeless families in NYC
Predictors of Homelessness Among
Families in New York City: From Shelter
Request to Housing Stability
American Journal of Public Health
Volume 88(1), November 1998,
pp.1651 to 1657
15
16. Method
568 homeless and housed poor families
First interviewed in 1988, then
interviewed again in 1993
Questions:
Who was stably housed (> one year)?
Why were they stably housed?
16
17. Factors not affecting stability
NOT – race, age, pregnancy, persistent
poverty, education, work history,
marriage, teen motherhood, child poverty,
mental illness, substance use, physical
health, incarceration, social ties domestic
violence, childhood disruptions
17
18. Who was stable?
80% of families who went into
subsidized housing
18% of families who went into
unsubsidized housing
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19. Only factor affecting stability
Subsidized housing
Marybeth Shinn: “Subsidized housing is
both necessary and sufficient to ‘cure’
homelessness among families.”
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20. Housing succeeds. . .
“We found that subsidized housing succeeds in
curing homelessness among families, regardless
of behavioral disorders or other conditions.
Whatever their problems – substance abuse,
mental illness, physical illness or a history of
incarceration – nearly all of the families became
stably housed when they received subsidized
housing.”
Marybeth Shinn
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21. Toronto’s affordable housing crisis
and homelessness is costly for:
People Neighbourhoods
Higher rate of illness; Disruption in
premature death communities
The economy Government
Decreased competitiveness, Increased cost of
depressed local conditions shelters, services,
policing, health care
22. The Blueprint to End
Homelessness in Toronto
practical
effective
fully-costed
23. Key indicators...
Growing housing need
552,525 people in
Toronto are living below
the poverty line
Toronto is projected to
grow by 429,400 to 2031;
TO needs 3,300 new 175,190 very-low income
rental homes annually households have annual
incomes less than
$20,000
24. Key indicators...
Rapidly rising rents
Toronto’s average market rents
are the highest in Canada
To afford this, a household needs an
annual income of $42,000
Almost one-in-four households
cannot afford the average rent
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25. Key indicators...
Shrinking rental supply
From 2001 to 2005, Toronto
lost 3,259 rental units
More than one-third of rental
homes need repairs - one-in-ten
need major repairs
The number of rented condo
units dropped from 35,401 in
1991 to 27,143 in 2005
26. Spruce Court, 1913 - Toronto’s first affordable housing
The first of many housing successes for Toronto
27. Toronto’s recent housing record
The federal government cancelled new
housing funding in 1993, then downloaded
most housing programs in 1996
The provincial government cancelled new
housing funding in 1995, then downloaded
most housing programs in 1998
As of 2006, the housing cuts have
cost Toronto 27,900 new homes
Since 2000, 1,435 new “affordable “ homes have
been completed in Toronto; only 613 of those are
truly affordable to the lowest-income households
28. In 1993, the federal government cancelled new housing
funding and downloaded housing in 1996
In 1993, the provincial government cancelled new
housing funding and downloaded housing in 1998
If programs had not been cancelled,
Toronto would have 28,000 more homes
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No new affordable homes in 23 of Toronto’s 44 wards
31. The Blueprint:
A two-part
action plan
Step one:
Move the
“sheltered”
homeless
into homes
Monthly cost of a
shelter bed: $1,932
Monthly cost of a rent
supplement: $701
32. The Blueprint:
A two-part
action plan
Step two:
Build new homes
✓ 7,800 new homes
✓ 2,000 supportive homes
✓ 8,600 renovated homes
✓ 9,750 rent supplements
✓ emergency relief
✓ eviction prevention
✓ inclusive planning
25% set-aside for
Aboriginal housing
33. The “golden era” of housing
Post-second world war housing programs; creation
of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation;
amendments to National Housing Act
High-water mark: 1973 amendments to NHA,
creation of national social housing program; 500,000-
plus new homes created across Canada
In provinces: Growth of rent regulation and tenant
protection laws
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34. The housing download
1984 to 1993 - almost $2 billion in federal housing cuts
1993 – new federal housing spending cancelled
1996 – federal housing downloaded to provinces
1998 - National Housing Act amended, CMHC partially
commercialized
1995 - Ontario cancels all new housing spending
1998 - Ontario downloads housing to municipalities
Ontario erodes tenant protection and rent regulation
laws
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35. 1990s - decade of housing cuts
1993-1994 1999-2000 Dollar Percent
($ millions) ($ millions) change change
Newfoundland 18.1 8.0 -10.1 -55.8
Prince Edward Island 2.3 3.2 +0.9 +39.1
Nova Scotia 24.2 14.3 -9.9 -40.9
New Brunswick 32.7 31.8 -0.9 -2.8
Quebec 286.3 288.3 +2 +0.7
Ontario 1,140.9 837.1 -303.8 -26.6
Manitoba 46.6 43.2 -3.4 -7.3
Saskatchewan 43.1 40.5 -2.6 -6.0
Alberta 287.3 93.2 -194.1 -67.6
British Columbia 83.4 90.9 +7.5 +9.0
NWT / Nunavut 69.7 114.4 +44.7 +64.1
Yukon 4.9 11.1 +6.2 +126.5
Total – provinces, territories 2,039.5 1,576.0 -463.5 -22.7
Canada (CMHC) 1,944.9 1,927.9 -17 -0.9
Total – all Canada 3,984.4 3,503.9 -480.5 -12.1
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36. Prof. Jean Wolfe
“It is only in Canada that the national government
has, except for CMHC loans, withdrawn from social
housing. The rush to get out of managing existing
projects and building new, low-income housing has
taken advocates by surprise. It was never imagined
that a system that had taken 50 years to build-up
could be dismantled so rapidly. Social housing
policy in Canada now consists of a checker-board
of 12 provincial and territorial policies, and
innumerable local policies. It is truly post-modern.”
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37. Housing / homelessness gains
Supporting Community Partnerships Initiative and
federal homelessness strategy (December 1999)
Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program
(December 1999 and federal budget 2003)
Federal Surplus Real Lands for Homelessness
Program (December 1999)
Affordable Housing Framework Agreement
(November 2001 and federal budget 2003)
Layton budget bill (June 2005)
Extension of SCPI and RRAP (November 2005)
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38. Spending on housing
(in hundreds of millions)
$9,500.000
$8,142.857
$6,785.714 Housing
$5,428.571
funding
gap of $5
$4,071.429 billion
$2,714.286
$1,357.143
$0
1990 1995 2000 2005 2006
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39. Current federal issues
PREVIOUS COMMITMENTS: At December, 2005,
feds report $474 million of $1 billion Affordable
Housing Program remains unspent
FEDERAL BUDGET 2006: $1.4 billion in C-48
housing dollars allocated
FEDERAL HOMELESS FUNDING: Entire federal
homelessness program due to “sunset” at the end of
fiscal 2006 (also federal housing rehab program)
FEDERAL HOUSING SURPLUSES: Almost $1
annually, yet the feds are considering further
privatization of CMHC
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40. For more
information
Blueprint to End
Homelessness in Toronto
www.wellesleyinstitute.com/theblueprint 40
41. For more information
Finding Room:
Policy Options for
a Canadian Rental
Housing Strategy
J. David Hulchanski,
Michael Shapcott, editors
www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca
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42. For more information
Social Determinants
of Health: Canadian
Perspectives
Dennis Raphael, editor
http://www.cspi.org/books/s/socialdeter.htm
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43. On the web…
On-line housing library and links
Centre for Urban and Community Studies,
University of Toronto
www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca
Wellesley Institute
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
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