Portable Housing Benefit Policy Forum (Part One)

On February 28th, 2018 a group of approximately fifty people gathered at Metro Hall for the Portable Housing Benefit Forum put on by the Social Planning Council of Toronto. 

Basically, the proposed Portable Housing Benefit would allow individuals to take their subsidies into the private housing rental market.  Toronto Community Housing would no longer be their only option.  

I, myself, have often been frustrated enough by the bureaucracy within North America's second largest social housing provider that I have requested the government attach the subsidies to the individuals instead of the units.  Then I would move out.   

​TCHC is not exactly a social environment.  This place more often resembles of a cross between a three-quarter way house (the stop in between a halfway house and a return to jail) and an addiction non-treatment center.  There are no guards or social workers present to monitor, document, or deal with any of the issues that arise.

​So, it's only natural, that if you still have a few of your marbles left, you would want an exit strategy.  A portable housing benefit seems like it could be the answer.

​Hold up a second.  Not so fast.  ​