STCAH notes Nov 29

[Aida M]

Here are the notes from tonight's meeting
and see attachment about Rent Controls for input from some outside help...

Notes for STCAH Tues Nov 29 meeting

In attendance: Adrian, Jim, Nicole, Justin, Aida

-Next Meeting: Tues Dec 8^th, 5:30pm

--Following Tues Dec 13th

-5:30pm: STCAH meeting

-7pm+ Brief workshop at Occupy GA at Harbourside to prep for Sat Dec 17^th event

--Sat Dec 17 Lanterns 'Rally' (or whatever we end up calling it)

3:30pm, meet at Harbourside and walk to City Hall

*Lanterns:

-glass jars with wire around the neck, paper around it OR mason jars sitting in cardboard boxes with windows cut out.

-with housing fact on each lantern:

rough ideas:

-no new rental units built in St. John's in the last 20 years (# condos built?)

-vs. Halifax (700+ units this past year)

-vacancy rate 1.1%

-what is “affordable”? Min. wage can afford? Living wage...

-rent to own – why are the poor paying the mortgage of the rich?

-no rent controls in NL

-how can someone own many homes, while others own none

-helping rich pay their mortgage

-human rights declaration of NL

-27,000 house holds in NL are in “core housing need”

-10% of Canadians have affordable housing issues

-300,000 suffer from being homeless across Canada

-people served in shelters in St. John's:

*2008: 1171

*2009: 1408

*2010: 1505

-make lanterns next Tuesday

we need:

-wire, string

-jars (everyone bring what you've got)

-cardboard & paper

-t-lights

-Dec 17^th partnership letter to take to other groups that may want to work with us

  ASAP

-Dec 17^th press release written after, maybe with partners to list

   -email out by Mon Dec 12^th

   -2 days later, follow-up call to media

-99% Film Fest: Wed Dec 14 – pick film(s) and presentation title by next film

e.g. maybe Power Point presentation including short films:

From Homelessness to Home

Ryan Oscar winning short animated film

clips from Salvation about the work of salvation army

St. John's receives help for affordable housing from CMHC

What is home?

A film about housing/homeless in NL needs to be made:

-contact NIFCO and other film groups to document housing/homelessness in St. John's

-start compiling our own footage and do