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• Streamlines entry into housing and support services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness
• Matches individuals and families with appropriate housing services based on their needs

The goals of the program are to:

• Ensure fairness and prioritize individuals and families most in need of assistance
• Guide individuals and families through the housing system

• Assists individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless by setting up accommodations or maintaining an existing residence

Provides assistance with the following:

• first and last month's rent
• furniture
• groceries and household supplies
• propane/oil/wood to heat home
• 3 months rent subsidy

• Streamlines entry into housing and support services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness
• Matches individuals and families with appropriate housing services based on their needs

The goals of the program are to:

• Ensure fairness and prioritize individuals and families most in need of assistance
• Guide individuals and families through the housing system

• Streamlines entry into housing and support services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness
• Matches individuals and families with appropriate housing services based on their needs

The goals of the program are to:

• Ensure fairness and prioritize individuals and families most in need of assistance
• Guide individuals and families through the housing system

• Streamlines entry into housing and support services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness
• Matches individuals and families with appropriate housing services based on their needs

The goals of the program are to:

• Ensure fairness and prioritize individuals and families most in need of assistance
• Guide individuals and families through the housing system

• Streamlines entry into housing and support services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness
• Matches individuals and families with appropriate housing services based on their needs

The goals of the program are to:

• Ensure fairness and prioritize individuals and families most in need of assistance
• Guide individuals and families through the housing system

Law students, under the direct supervision of licensed lawyers, provide free legal advice and representation to low income earners who cannot afford to pay for legal services

Provides services in the following areas:

• Minor criminal offences such as common assault, theft under $5000, and mischief to property under $5000
• Provincial and traffic offences such as trespass to property, careless driving, speeding tickets, driving with no insurance, and driving under suspended licence
• Small Claims Court and Civil disputes under $35,000
• Tenant rights and applications to the Landlord and Tenant Board
• Simple wills and Powers of Attorney
• Employment law
• Applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board

Beginning September 2021, free immigration and refugee law services will be offered

• Streamlines entry into housing and support services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness
• Matches individuals and families with appropriate housing services based on their needs

The goals of the program are to:

• Ensure fairness and prioritize individuals and families most in need of assistance
• Guide individuals and families through the housing system

Provides legal advice and assistance to individuals who do not have the means to assert or defend their legal rights through the following services:

• Client representation in clinic areas of practice
• Free summary legal advice
• Information and referral
• Law reform advocacy
• Public education
• Specialized legal services

Services are offered in the following areas:

• Birth certificates
• Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Disability or Pension benefits
• Canada Child Benefits (CCB)
• Consumer and Credit/Debt issues
• Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB)
• Disability Tax benefits
• Employment Insurance (EI)
• Employment Standards (ESA)
• Human Rights
• Native Status applications
• Old Age Security (OAS)
• Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
• Ontario Works
• Residential Tenancies (tenants only)

• Provides safe and affordable, culturally appropriate housing to urban and rural First Nation, Inuit and Métis people living off-Reserve
• Consists of new, affordable rental units, home ownership loans and repair funding

Administers the following programs:

• OPHI Homeownership Program
• OPHI Ontario Renovates 2020/2022 Home Repair Program
• Mkaana-wii-giiwe'aad Program

• Provides safe and affordable, culturally appropriate housing to urban and rural First Nation, Inuit and Métis people living off-Reserve
• Consists of new, affordable rental units, home ownership loans and repair funding

Administers the following programs:

• OPHI Homeownership Program
• OPHI Ontario Renovates 2020/2022 Home Repair Program
• Mkaana-wii-giiwe'aad Program

Responsible for administering the Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act, which outlines the warranty protection that new home purchasers are entitled to in Ontario.

• Licence new home builders and vendors
• Ensure that builders abide by the legislation
• Educate new home buyers about their warranty rights
• Protect consumers when builders fail to fulfil their warranty obligations
• Resolve disputes about warranty coverage
• Investigates illegal building practices
• Promote high standards of new home construction

Experts in the housing programs supporting the varied and distinct housing needs of Indigenous and the North communities

• including the First Nations, Urban Indigenous, Inuit and Metis people in Canada

Federal housing agency

• mortgage loan insurance
• information on buying a home, renting a home, home renovations, co-operative housing
• housing policy and research

Represents the interests of private sector rental housing providers * offers public advocacy and information on property management, rental housing regulation and residential tenancies law * Certified Rental Buildings Program designation and listings, www.crbprogram.org

COVID19 -- telephone inquiries only, online information about housing security during the COVID19 emergency
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Legal clinic focusing on individual and systemic anti-Black racism

• legal representation
• test case litigation
• law reform and community development
• summary legal advice, brief services and public legal education
• funded by Legal Aid Ontario

Eviction prevention supports

• legal information about the eviction and Landlord and Tenant Board processes, help with system navigation, and helping people find supports to help them keep their homes

Information about the human rights claim process

• tools for self-advocacy
• educational materials about tenant and housing rights
• workshops about housing rights

Advocates for tenants facing human rights issues in housing including discrimination, harassment or the need for an accommodation under the Ontario Human Rights Code

Regulates the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants in residential properties

• responds to complaints about offences under the Residential Tenancies Act
• investigates complaints up to prosecution
• receives complaints and investigates maintenance issues where there are no municipal standards
• complaints may be made to this Unit, or to the Landlord and Tenant Board, or to both -- complaints requiring a repayment order must be made to the Landlord and Tenant Board (see separate entry)

Provincial coalition of first stage emergency violence against women shelters and second stages housing programs; membership also available to community-based organizations with women's programming and/or violence against women programming

Information and online resources for membership, public education and advocacy for public policy change; Violence Against Women Library including directory of shelters in Ontario with services for pets of women leaving violence

No direct service to women experiencing violence

Incorporated non-profit organization

• provides information, assistance and educational programs to Ontario's small-scale landlords
• free of charge

Specialty legal clinic

• works to better the housing situation of low income Ontario residents including tenants, housing cooperative members and homeless people
• no direct legal services for individuals, people requiring legal advice or representation relating to housing issues should contact their local community legal clinic, to find local clinic call Legal Aid Ontario 1-800-668-8258
• public legal education including tip sheets providing legal information on common tenant concerns available at www.acto.ca/for-tenants/tip-sheets/
• funded by Legal Aid Ontario

Tenant Duty Counsel Program -- legal advice and information for unrepresented low income tenants, with a scheduled hearing at the Landlord and Tenant Board (see separate entry) offered by phone once clients sign up at tdc.acto.ca/, Tenant Duty Counsel will call within five days of hearing

Community legal clinic and resource centre

• information, referrals and summary advice on housing issues from landlord's perspective
• educational tools
• law reform
• rental forms
• funded by Legal Aid