Income-based housing benefit: Difference between revisions

== Portable housing benefit (in Canada's National Housing Strategy, 2017) ==

 

 

from [OAFB 2017]:<br/> "As policies that supported a healthy rental system disappeared, so too did the commitments to rent-geared-toincome units (RGI), or what is more commonly referred to as social housing. Until 1994, Canada’s social housing program had been building 20,000 new units per year, which greatly boosted the availability of housing options for low-income Canadians.25 Around the same time, the Government of Ontario transferred all responsibility of operating and maintaining existing social housing&nbsp;units to the municipalities, which lack the taxation powers and revenues seen at the provincial and federal levels.28 This added increased strain on the budgets of cities and towns across the province, and to this day continues to contribute to the poor quality and long wait lists associated with social housing. With little investment in affordable housing since the 1990s, Ontario’s housing market has been headed towards a state of emergency for years."

*Galante, Carol,&nbsp;Carolina K. Reid, and Nathaniel Decker. [http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/fair-tax-credit "The Fair Tax Credit: A Proposal For a Federal Assistance in Rental Credit to Support Low-Income Renters."] Terner Center for Housing Innovation,&nbsp;November 2016.&nbsp;[http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/fair-tax-credit. http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/fair-tax-credit.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;

*Lubell, Jeffrey (2014). "[http://www.abtassociates.com/AbtAssociates/files/ce/ce7c306c-3cce-4dda-96c8-6098abe8a5ac.pdf Housing More People More Effectively through a Dynamic Housing Policy."]&nbsp;Bipartisan Policy Center, 17 December 2014.&nbsp;<br/> [http://www.abtassociates.com/AbtAssociates/files/ce/ce7c306c-3cce-4dda-96c8-6098abe8a5ac.pdf http://www.abtassociates.com/AbtAssociates/files/ce/ce7c306c-3cce-4dda-96c8-6098abe8a5ac.pdf].<br/> &nbsp;

*Sard, Barbara, and Will Fischer. "[https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/renters-tax-credit-would-promote-equity-and-advance-balanced-housing-policy Renters’ Tax Credit Would Promote Equity and Advance Balanced Housing Policy]." Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 21 August 2013.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/> [https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/renters-tax-credit-would-promote-equity-and-advance-balanced-housing-policy. https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/renters-tax-credit-would-promote-equity-and-advance-balanced-housing-policy.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;

*Stegman, Michael, Roberto Quercia, and Walter Davis. "T[https://www.brookings.edu/research/tax-policy-as-housing-policy-the-eitcs-potential-to-make-housing-more-affordable-for-working-families/ ax Policy as Housing Policy: The EITC’s Potential to Make Housing More Affordable for Working Families]." Brookings Institute, October 1 2003.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;