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Windsor Essex Community off the waiting list depends on many factors, includ-
Housing Corporation, continues ing the area they want to live in, the unit size they
to provide the centralized wait need, the active households on the centralized wait
list function for the Service list, number of housing choices they have selected
Manager, through the Central and other housing needs they may have.
Housing Registry Windsor Essex-County (CHR). We Provincially, there were 168,711 families, seniors,
administer the centralized waiting list according to single adults and couples waiting for rent-geared-to-
the rules set out in the Housing Services Act, 2011. income (RGI) housing across Ontario in 2014, accord-
The rules determine who is eligible for subsidized ing to a report released in May 2015, by the Ontario
housing and qualifies to be placed on the centralized Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA).
waiting list. The latest provincial figures reveal that there were
Managing the centralized waiting list for forty WInd- 3,642 more households waiting for RGI housing in
sor and Essex County housing providers* goes be- 2014 than in 2013. More than three per cent of all
yond collecting applications, maintaining files and Ontario households have applied for housing. For the
administering eligibility rules. We meet the people second year in a row, these households provincially
who need affordable housing now. faced an average wait of nearly four years.
2,934 households are waiting.**
The length of time it takes for an applicant to move
618 APPLICANTS 2934 WAITING**
HOUSED**
2566 CHRONOLOGICAL SENIORS, FAMILIES, SINGLES AND COUPLES
FOUND THEIR SPACE, PLACE , STEPS TO CHANGE 64 VICTIMS OF ABUSE (SPP)
MAYA ANGELOU
304 HOMELESS (PII)
* The City of Windsor Website www.citywindsor.ca
**As of December 31, 2015 , local definitions apply.
