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:
The Service Manager has the flexibility to determine how to manage transfers between housing providers. Discretion is given to Service Managers to determine whether households will or will not be required to be added to the centralized waiting list.
Consultation with social housing providers and CHR staff identified an interest in prioritizing the transfer of over housed RGI tenants. The process of transferring RGI tenants between social housing providers in Windsor Essex will begin by offering priority transfers to RGI households that are over housed. Prioritizing this group for transfers between housing providers will ensure that tenants in social housing units in Windsor Essex are in the right size unit and housing resources are being utilized appropriately.
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).