Fear of losing their home is driving public housing residents away from skilled trades apprenticeship, union says

A local carpentry union is raising concern about resignations among apprentices recruited from Toronto’s subsidized housing — claiming a provincial rule forces the apprentices to choose between pursuing a career and their families’ housing security.

They’d hired a retention consultant to probe the issue, Daly said, and learned it boils down to housing rules. While the Ontario government exempts some training programs from rent-geared-to-income calculations — meaning any money earned during a resident’s training cannot affect their family’s housing subsidy — the carpentry apprenticeship isn’t among the exemptions.

Give a man a fish.

80% stay in the program, a person in the program says how great it is...seems to me like the people foregoing/leaving the program are being extremely short sighted. Perhaps this thinking is why they are/remain in public housing.

It is not the working people that are having the most problems, it’s the ones not working, usually taking drugs, that the government is pandering to that spend their money elsewhere and then cry the blues.

So rather than work and pay market rent they quit and stay home? Not too bright are they

Why do you want to continue to live in public housing

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