Posts by Iler Campbell

ONPHA Members: Read our just published report on aging tenants

August 26th, 2015 by Iler Campbell

Increasingly, housing providers find themselves in a position where there is a need to intervene in the decision making of elderly tenants with diminished capacity. In a report just published to the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association’s members only website, Lauren Blumas highlights some of the common challenges housing providers face with aging tenants and provides strategies, resources and tips to help housing providers support tenants with diminished mental capacity while managing risk.

If you’re a member you can log on here to read the report.

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May 12th, 2015 by Iler Campbell

We’re currently accepting applications for the 2016 – 2017 articling year. We’re looking for like-minded, progressive people to join our team. Please submit your application (including cover letter, resume, reference letters and copies of your transcripts) by Friday, July 3 to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

Options for Homes celebrates official opening of 341 affordable housing unit project

March 23rd, 2015 by Iler Campbell

Options for Homes celebrated the official opening of their Cranbrook Village condo project on Friday. The building, just north of Bathurst St. and Lawrence Ave. is comprised of 341 units which thanks to Option’s innovative financing model were sold for significantly below market value.

City councillor, Ana Bailão and Member of Parliment, Adam Vaughan were present to celebrate. The City of Toronto contributed funds to make 94 of the building’s units even more affordable. Vaughan lamented on Twitter that the federal government was not a funder of the project and had actually made money from it.

Options’ innovative model provides loans to condo purchasers to boost their down payment by 13% or more of the purchase price. The loan is repayable as an equivalent percentage of the sale price when the condo is sold. Those proceeds then go towards the construction of more affordable housing.

We’ve had the great fortune to be partners with Options from their very beginning.

Read more about Options in our profile of them. Check out what Anna Bailão had to say about the event here and catch up on Adam Vaughan’s tweets (including a picture of Shelina and Brian) here.

The Pope on co-ops

March 4th, 2015 by Iler Campbell

In a speech last Saturday, Pope Francis praised co-operative organizations, saying that “the foundation of new cooperative enterprises, along with the further development of those already in existence” should be a “first place” priority of society. Co-operatives, he said,  should “continue to be the motor for lifting up and developing the weakest part of our local communities and of civil society”. In co-operatives, he said, “capital does not rule over people, but people over capital.”

He called for “creative imagination to find forms, methods, attitudes and tools to combat the throwaway culture cultivated by the powers that support the economic and financial policies of the globalised world.”

Hear, hear!

Charity law blocks progress on issues facing Canadians

February 17th, 2015 by Iler Campbell

Saturday’s edition of the Toronto Star features an op-ed penned by Brian and Garfield Mahood. In it they write of Canadian charities under attack for turning a spotlight onto the Harper government’s policies or for advocating for public policy change. CRA audits of charitable status, they write, are creating a culture of self-censorship that is inhibiting many NGOs from working effectively.

Read the full article here

Brian Iler holds councillor Mammoliti accountable for improper fundraising

July 18th, 2014 by Iler Campbell

Brian was recently in the news after his complaint to Toronto’s integrity commissioner resulted in city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, being docked three months of pay for violating council’s rules on accepting gifts and benefits.

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