Housing & Homelessness Advisory Committee
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Housing Services is currently working with the CHR and CHC staff to implement this change. Target date for implementation in Windsor Essex is tentatively set for November 1, 2020.

Waiting List Changes: Transfers

The change would come into force on January 1, 2020.

This regulatory change will remove the current requirement that tenants requesting a transfer to a RGI unit operated by a different housing provider have their application placed on the centralized waiting list. The changes include the following:

Housing Services is currently working with the CHR and CHC staff to implement this change. Target date for implementation in Windsor Essex is tentatively set for November 1, 2020.

RGI Simplification

The change comes into force on July 1, 2020 but allows Service Managers the choice of whether to implement the changes on either July 1, 2020 or July 1, 2021.

Target date for implementation in Windsor Essex is set for July 1, 2021.

MMAH will revoke Ontario Regulation 298/01 and introduce a new, simplified regulation (Ontario Regulation 316/19}. The changes include the following:

Moving to a simplified, annual calculation of rent based on 30 percent of adjusted family net income (utilizing income tax return).

Income may also be based on a projection of net income for the next 12 months in certain situations (e.g. if a tenant's income tax return is not available).