Image description: DJNO and Enabling Justice logos featuring our 10 prisoner support lines in Open Dyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next fonts. QR codes for Enabling Justice and the prison project volunteer forms which are also available through our LinkTree.

Hamilton 905-631-4084
Kenora/North 807-548-4312
Kingston 613-881-0050
London/West 519-690-0836
Milton/GTA 416-775-7983
Niagara 905-227-5066
Ottawa/East 613-768-9951
Penetanguishene 705-797-7002
Sudbury 705-522 7136
Warkworth 705-270-8073

Read the full report at the link in bio or: tr.ee/l2BTAsl6qz
(we're working on getting a more accessibly formatted copy of the report)
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-Support Indigenous + Migrant Unhoused Community Members.
-Address gender-based, systemic violence.
-Implement strategies/resources re: extreme weather year-round.
-Protect + empower community organizations, ending retaliation/surveillance against service providers/advocates.
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- Develop and maintain real federal investments.
- End forced encampment evictions and the criminalization of homelessness.
- Stop using coercive methods that force people to choose between the harms of an eviction and inadequate housing.
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The purpose of the trip was to assess how federal, provincial, and municipal responses to encampments are impacting people’s lives and to monitor the implementation of federal investments. The Report is now live and makes critical recommendations to:
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Between 21 and 26 September 2025, the Federal Housing Advocate visited the Southern Ontario (Region of Waterloo, London, Hamilton, and Toronto to hear directly from residents of homeless encampments, frontline workers, community organizations, and local politicians.
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But we still have much to do:
• Greater Eligibility for WSIB, CPP-D, and member programs like CNIB Cardholders.
• More accessible, simpler registration.
• Move from 50% to free transit for all disabled and low-income riders."
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This ‘Giving Tuesday’, consider donating to a non-charity like DJNO. While we are not a charity, our work benefits the whole of disabled communities around Ontario—let’s keep it going!

See your options to donate at: djno.ca/donate
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We need real solutions—direct funding, co-operative housing by and for disabled people, and a full Coroner's Super-Inquest into the violence and death present in all these systems. And we need it now.
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Moving our communities from the hospital ward to carceral long-term care facilities or so-called ‘supportive’ housing is just replicating the same old models. We refuse to sit by and allow the actual needs and long-time demands of our communities to be set aside.
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On the other hand, the recommendations fail to address wider systems failure and the similarities between the hospital and large congregate so-called supportive facilities. We know that this call to action will simply become re-institutionalization with a different face.
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On one hand, we are glad that the stories of our community are brought to the fore and some of the recommendations move things forward.
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While this Bill has passed, we cannot stop the pressure and organizing we can built now. We will defend our communities and fight back.

Ontario has rammed this bill through the Legislature that:
- cause tenants in arrears to have to pay up to 50% before being able to raise other issues at the LTB.
- undermine various green standards and transit.
- open the door to privatization of water".

And if we fail to build accessible housing now? “History offers a warning... We need homes that are permanently affordable and that meet people's needs now, and for generations to come.”

Link in bio or www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/...

As they say here, we have the tools we need to make housing accessible and affordable—but we need the Building Code to catch up fast and for Build Canada Homes to ensure that funds for affordable housing are held to the highest standard of accessible housing construction.