what we do
research
our housing precariousness in quotessurvey of 70 artists
some of our actions
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action to convince Workman Arts to take responsibility in safely housing its artist members |
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in progress: a soundmap of Toronto that is dedicated to Workman Arts. the map will feature text and sound recordings of stories of housing crisis; images, text and sound of transforming trauma into stretches of new imagination (utopia); text and live sound broadcasts of news from wormholes (news coming from the future, the past or a parallel universe); and components that embody or speak to an aesthetic of failure. you fail when the system fails you. |
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email correspondance and 2 meetings with the Toronto Accessible Housing Working Group (AHWG): 1) to include into the concept of "accessible units" the flexibility for the specific accessibility needs of invisibly disabled individuals 2) to add "financial accessibility" as a fundamental requirement for a unit to be "accessible" 3) to stop the practice of erasing recipients of the Canada-Ontario-Housing-Benefit (COHB) from the central waiting list for rent-geared-to-income (RGI). DDADH's 1st letter to AHWG, November 12, 2022 email from DDADH after meetings but no apparent progress, August 17, 2023 reply from AHWG, August 29, 2023 It is now January 2024. We acknowledge that we have been at least partially heard by the AHWG. We also acknowledge that we do not have the ressources to continue following up and pressuring City Council to hear us too. |
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email correspondance with Councillor Alejandra Bravo (Davenport) - requesting that Canada-Ontario-Housing-Benefit (COHB) recipients not be erased from the central waiting list for rent-geared-to-income (RGI). 5th email to Councillor Bravo and her manager Em Wong, about COHB and RGI, after some hopes to get news from city staff |
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letters exchanged with the Directors of Housing Secretariat and Director of Housing Stability - to have disabled individuals added to the list of people who have priority access to rent-geared-to-income (RGI) in Toronto. this list is part of the local "priority rules". DDADH's letter to Housing Secretariat asking for "priority access" to Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) housing, August 29, 2022 response from Director of Housing Stability, September 12, 2022 DDADH's reply to Doug Rollins, October 18, 2022 DDADH's letter to the Accessible Housing Working Group, November 12, 2022 DDADH's letter to Abigail Bond at Housing Secretariat, February 20, 2023 response from Director of Housing Stability Doug Rollins, March 13, 2023 It is now January 2024, and we have made made no progress it seems. we declare that the system in place has failed us. |
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