{"id":46722,"date":"2021-08-16T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=46722"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:24:32","slug":"ontario-providing-more-support-to-communities-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/16\/ontario-providing-more-support-to-communities-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Providing More Support to Communities During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trillium-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33734\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trillium-1-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>The Ontario government is providing an additional $307 million to help municipalities and Indigenous community partners deliver critical services, create longer-term housing solutions and keep people safe. This investment builds upon the $765 million dollars of Social Services Relief Funding (SSRF) announced in 2020- 2021, for a total support to communities of over $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMunicipalities have been on the frontlines of Ontario\u2019s pandemic response and vaccine rollout, while continuing to protect our most vulnerable populations, including homeless populations,\u201d said Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. \u201cOur government is committed to ensuring municipalities have the resources they need to keep their communities safe, and today\u2019s funding will help our local partners deliver critical services, support vulnerable people, and unlock affordable housing in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Municipalities and Indigenous community partners can use the funding to protect homeless shelter staff and residents, add to rent banks, build affordable housing, and support plans to prepare for potential future outbreaks and\/or emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is providing an additional $307 million to help municipalities and Indigenous community partners deliver critical services, create longer-term housing solutions and keep people safe. This investment builds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":31649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:25:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46723,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46722\/revisions\/46723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}