The price is high when relying on stable and affordable energy, clean air and water, and healthy food – not only financially, but socially and ecologically as well. Here’s four easy ways to save your planet … and money.

It is often difficult to recognize the contribution that a resource such as water makes to our economy, our society, our health and welfare. Yet on March 22nd, World Water Day attempts to do just that by reminding us that we all rely on a steady supply of clean, fresh water.

Losses on the stock market? Appliances from China? Splitting purchase orders? Holt Renfew chocolates? What was TCHC thinking?

That’s the question any fair-minded person would ask after reading the Auditor General’s two reports on Toronto Community Housing. It’s certainly the question the housing community has been asking.

The release of the Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy (LTAHS) brings with it winds for big change in the affordable housing sector. Likely to pass in the spring, the Housing Services Act has yet to write the regulations that it will bring. The regulations, which won’t be known for at least another year, will have an effect on Service Managers and housing providers. Read More.

This week United Way, Toronto released “Poverty By Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty,” a research study partially funded by SHSC.

Bill 122 the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act was recently fast tracked through Queen’s Park and has reached royal assent. While this Bill appears to be directed at hospitals and local health integration networks, it casts a broader net that may impact some housing providers in Ontario’s social housing sector.

In this second part of the Rooftop Series, Rooftops Intern Raees Ahmed talks about his experience in developing and piloting a bulk purchasing program in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Rooftops Canada has been supporting an unusual project in Mumbai, India – recycling construction waste and reclaiming what was seemingly useless debris in a cost-effective and sustainable program.

Tony Meloto founded Gawad Kalinga (GK) to address the issues of urban poverty and lack of affordable housing in Philippines. GK built 300 homes on donated land in their first community, now there over half a million homes in over 2,000 communities throughout the country. Can we learn something from GK?

On Thursday November 4, I had the pleasure of attending the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto’s (CHFT) annual awards evening at St. Lawrence Hall. This was the 14th year CHFT recognized and celebrated the many accomplishments of its member co-ops.