Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2023-04-17 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Rachel Blaney (North Island\u2014Powell River, NDP)",
        "fr": "Mme Rachel Blaney (North Island\u2014Powell River, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7695319\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in my riding of North Island\u2014Powell River, every community I serve is in desperate need of housing. The top three reasons for housing insecurity are a lack of affordable rents or mortgages, low wages and housing in major need of repair with no resources to fix it. Indigenous people are four times as likely to be unhoused.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7695320\" data-originallang=\"en\">People with core housing needs in my riding are single-income families; those who live on a fixed income, such as seniors and persons living with disabilities; lone-parent households; and indigenous households. This issue requires a real partner in the federal government, and our region is simply not seeing that. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7695321\" data-originallang=\"en\">My constituents have ideas, such as redesigning the reaching home program's rural and remote funding stream. My communities have sent meaningful and thoughtful feedback. I urge the government to listen to it; prioritize rural, remote and indigenous communities; define affordability based on local realities, not market values; invest in non-market housing; and make capital investments into the upkeep of aging properties to keep people housed.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7695319\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la crise du logement frappe cruellement toutes les collectivit\u00e9s de ma circonscription, North Island\u2014Powell River. Les trois principales causes de l'ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 en mati\u00e8re de logement sont la p\u00e9nurie de loyers ou d'hypoth\u00e8ques abordables, des salaires bas et le fait de vivre dans une maison ayant grandement besoin de r\u00e9parations sans avoir les moyens de les effectuer. Les membres des peuples autochtones sont quatre fois plus \u00e0 risque de se retrouver sans logement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7695320\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans ma circonscription, les personnes ayant des besoins imp\u00e9rieux en mati\u00e8re de logement sont les m\u00e9nages \u00e0 revenu unique; les personnes qui touchent un revenu fixe, comme les a\u00een\u00e9s et les handicap\u00e9s; les familles monoparentales; et les familles autochtones. Cette situation exige que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral soit un v\u00e9ritable partenaire, ce qui n'est tout simplement pas le cas dans notre r\u00e9gion. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7695321\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mes concitoyens ont des id\u00e9es, comme le remaniement du programme Vers un chez-soi et du volet de financement pour les collectivit\u00e9s rurales et \u00e9loign\u00e9es. Les collectivit\u00e9s de ma circonscription ont envoy\u00e9 des commentaires \u00e9clair\u00e9s et s\u00e9rieux. J'exhorte le gouvernement \u00e0 les \u00e9couter; \u00e0 accorder la priorit\u00e9 aux collectivit\u00e9s rurales, \u00e9loign\u00e9es et autochtones; \u00e0 d\u00e9finir l'abordabilit\u00e9 en fonction des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s locales, et non de la valeur du march\u00e9; \u00e0 investir dans des logements sociaux; et \u00e0 investir des capitaux dans l'entretien des propri\u00e9t\u00e9s vieillissantes afin que les gens puissent rester chez eux. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2023/4/17/rachel-blaney-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/rachel-blaney/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4199/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12136880",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Housing",
        "fr": "Le logement"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2023/4/17/",
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    }
}