so, i am now in priority status for subsidized housing. i should end up with an actual apartment sometime in the next year, if it goes according to plan. the asshole landlords will need to wait me out, and may lose some cases at the board in the process. getting a stay was a little trickier than i expected but it's done and everything is going according to plan.

i'm disabled. i live on social assistance. i'm supposed to be in social housing. i don't want to be exclusivist about this because i legitimately believe that refugees deserve short term housing, but i require long term housing and i should actually be placed at the top of the list by default. i would call for a change of the formula so that disabled people with long term social needs get priority over refugees that need to stay in a hotel for some short term help; currently, in ontario, refugees are top priority for housing, and they shouldn't be, they should be lower on the list. we need to take care of our own first. most of the problems we have with disabled poverty levels would be solved by reformulating the priority list to get them in social housing where they're supposed to be but largely currently aren't. it doesn't make sense to put disabled people on the housing market; it makes perfect sense to put refugees on the housing market, because they are in fact expected to work, whereas the disabled are, by definition, not.

so, this is a bit of a shitty tactic to push forward something i should have easier access to, but it's in process and hopefully it enacts itself soon.

one of the upsides of social housing in windsor and canada is that it's non-smoking. good luck finding an apartment building anywhere willing to enforce a no-smoking policy, even if they advertise it or even prefer it. it's not worth it to them. the city enforces it by bylaw, it's city property. otherwise, if you want non-smoking, you need to buy a condo, which is post #2 this morning.