{"id":238084,"date":"2015-11-01T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/the-co-op-housing-sector-has-reasons-to-be-optimistic\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:08:40","slug":"the-co-op-housing-sector-has-reasons-to-be-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/the-co-op-housing-sector-has-reasons-to-be-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"The co-op housing sector has reasons to be optimistic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the election campaign the Liberal Party of Canada&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/billmorneau.liberal.ca\/bill-morneau-and-adam-vaughan-reinforce-liberal-plan-to-renew-co-operative-housing-agreements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged<\/a>&nbsp;to renew funding for housing co-operatives and to build more affordable rental housing. This was great news and a great response to the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada\u2019s (CHF) \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chfcanada.coop\/eng\/pages2007\/eoacampaign.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Hold the Key\u201d campaign<\/a>&nbsp;to fix the co-op housing crunch. The pledge will be a relief to those facing a halt to subsidies that maintain safe and affordable housing for vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p>CHF Canada a CMC member that represents more than 900 housing co-operatives, immediately stated that they are ready to start working with the new Liberal government as the election results were confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s housing co-operatives are eager to work with the new federal government to fulfill their commitment to renew funding. In this way, people and vulnerable families living in housing co-operatives continue to have access to safe and affordable housing, \u201csaid the general manager of CHF Canada Nicholas Gazzard.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, more than 21,000 low-income households live in housing co-operatives where rents are made affordable through the federal funding agreements. Without the funding agreements, it is difficult if not impossible for co-operatives to provide social housing at an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chfcanada.coop\/eng\/pages2007\/news_2015_02.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the election campaign the Liberal Party of Canada&nbsp;pledged&nbsp;to renew funding for housing co-operatives and to build more affordable rental housing. This was great news and a great response to the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada\u2019s (CHF) \u201cYou Hold the Key\u201d campaign&nbsp;to fix the co-op housing crunch. The pledge will be a relief to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238434,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238084\/revisions\/238434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}