JUNE 22, 2016 – 1:30 pm EST – 2:30 pm EST
Hear from CHRA’s Executive Director Jeff Morrison on CHRA’s 2016-19 Strategic Plan that lays the foundation for the associations programs, research, partnerships and national advocacy.
THE CANADIAN HOUSING AND RENEWAL ASSOCIATION is the national voice for the full range of affordable housing and homelessness issues and solutions.
JUNE 22, 2016 – 1:30 pm EST – 2:30 pm EST
Hear from CHRA’s Executive Director Jeff Morrison on CHRA’s 2016-19 Strategic Plan that lays the foundation for the associations programs, research, partnerships and national advocacy.
CHRA sent an open letter to federal, provincial and territorial Housing Ministers regarding the upcoming consultation on a National Housing Strategy. The letter contains the Declaration passed by members of CHRA at the Annual General Meeting in April 2016.
The Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development, and the Minister responsible for Housing and CMHC, the Hon. Jean Yves Duclos, spoke at the opening ceremony at CHRA’s Congress.
In November 2015, Prime Minister Trudeau made public the Mandate Letters that he sent to each of his individual Cabinet Ministers. Within those Mandate Letters were several directives to Ministers directly related to housing; some of these directives were explicitly related to housing, others are more implicit. CHRA has produced a status report on the federal government’s progress in implementing the Mandate Letter deliverables.