Traduction de «Programme Opération Logement coopératif » (Français → Anglais) :

8. Calls on the Member States to take on responsibility for guaranteeing the right to housing for everyone, in particular by launching housing programmes for less well-off citizens, providing incentives to promote controlled-cost housing, constructing social rented housing, promoting and financing self-building programmes, supporting the cooperative sector, launching effective and non-speculative credit policies and regulating a non-speculative rental market;

24. Recalls the acknowledgment in the declaration of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh that global trade imbalances have been at the roots of the financial crisis, and that a cooperative process of mutual assessment of national trade policy frameworks should be launched; calls on both sides to acknowledge the linkages of trade policy with the prospects of achieving global financial stability and a fair currency exchange alignment among the main econ ...[+++]omies; calls for a new agenda for the WTO, under the premise of the adaptation of global trade rules to financial crisis prevention, currency alignment, poverty reduction and climate change mitigation goals;

Mr. Speaker, the second petition I present is from petitioners who are very concerned about the need for affordable and co-op housing units, and the loss of subsidies to co-op housing units that were cut under the section 95 program.

Hon. Monte Solberg (Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, CPC): Mr. Speaker, with respect to programs and spending administered by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, CMHC, within the riding of Burnaby-New Westminster: Social housing: CMHC currently administers 890 co-operative housing units which provide housing for singles and families.

They are keenly aware of the fact that over two million Canadians are still in desperate need of decent, affordable housing and are petitioning the House to first, repay all law subsidies to section 95 housing co-ops; second, to provide new assistance so these co-ops can help low income residents thereby making up to 10,000 co-op homes affordable again for people in need; third, to build 200,000 affordable and co-op housing units, renovate 100,000 existing units and provide rent supplements to 40,000 low income tenants; and fourth, to extend the supporting communities partnership initiative, known as SCPI, that funds successful homelessness p ...[+++]revention programs.

We still desperately need a comprehensive, fully funded housing program for co-op, non-profit, aboriginal, supportive, alternative, and transitional housing developers and providers with adequate capital subsidies, adequate rent supplements, funding for rehabilitation of abandoned or substandard housing, support service funding, and development assistance.