Bill Bosworth This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. TheStar.com - Kennedy's apprenticeship

   www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Cont - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/12/2006   Last Visited: 4/12/2006

   Another person troubled by Kennedy's wild success was Bill Bosworth, founder of the Homes First Society, which believed the homeless needed affordable housing not hostels.
   
   "Ideally, you want to be addressing both the short-term solutions to homelessness and hunger while working on the long-term policy solutions," he says.

2. 2. www.ontariotenants.ca

   www.ontariotenants.ca/research - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/1/1994   Last Visited: 11/30/2007

   Second, rooming and boarding houses are distinguished from hostels and flophouses by weekly rentals and, since 1987, by a formal, legal relationship with the housing provider, regulated in Ontario by the Landlord and Tenant Act. (Tenant protection was extended to those receiving personal care from housing providers by Bill 120 in 1994.) Rooming houses have the potential to be a permanent and secure housing form for their residents, although they are often described as ephemeral arrangements, inhabited by transients.
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   Bill Bosworth puts it bluntly: "There is no such thing as a `good hostel.'"
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   However, Bill Bosworth of the Homes First Society wasn't fooled: "People don't choose, except for economic reasons, to have someone living with them," he said, and added that the construction of small, self-contained rental units was the only realistic solution.
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   In July 1986, Bill 11, An Act Respecting the Protection of Rental Housing, received royal assent.

3. 3. Newsletter

   ipmsauckland.hobbyvista.com/Ne - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/1/2002   Last Visited: 11/25/2007

   Despite many attempts I could not make this work, and despite the advice of company founder Bill Bosworth on the AM website it seemed to me to be impossible.