Housing & Homelessness Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
Ontario Renovates – Social, Housing Repairs/Second Unit Program Update
J. Susko advises the Ontario Renovates Social Housing Repair Program (OR-SHRP) is funded under Ontario’s Community Housing Renewal Strategy and is intended to assist Windsor and Essex County social housing provider(s) to rehabilitate units that require essential repairs, which preserve and extend the functional lifespan of the social housing supply and/or modify units to increase accessibility.
The 2019-20 funding amount of $2.3 M was distributed to 21 Windsor and Essex County social housing providers to address urgent and necessary repairs representing 1,100 social units to be repaired by December 31, 2020.
We are pleased to announce the Ontario Renovates – Social Housing Repair Program (OR-SHRP) was released to eligible social housing providers on Monday, June 15, 2020. The funding allocations for eligible Windsor and Essex County social housing provider(s) is up to approximately $2.7 M for 2020-21.
Ontario Renovates Second Unit Program Update
Launch was planned for release on March 30, 2020 but has been placed on hold as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The application and the building of a second unit/additional dwelling unit require the involvement of the applicant’s municipal building department for approval to build a second unit/additional dwelling units in accordance with their municipal by laws
$200,000 was being allocated from our Ontario Renovates Revolving Loan Fund to offer this program
Maximum funding through this funding is $25,000 per second unit/additional dwelling unit
Goal 2: Sustain and expand social housing that is linked with supports
Reaching Home
K. Goz provides an overview of the Reaching Home program as follows:
As previously reported at the last HHAC meeting, a Request for Proposal was issued in late 2019 to allocate funding for 2020-2024 (program years 2-5) through the Government of Canada’s Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy.
Total award of the contract is: $2,497,679.95
Year 2 - $526,527.40
Year 3 - $657,050.85
Year 4 - $657,050.85
Year 5 - $657,050.85