…cutting Toronto community support: Wellesley Institute policy backgrounder Core Services Flip sheet Download: Role of vibrant community sector in reducing disparities and improving population health: New research. Download: Take care of the health of our city: Key resources on Toronto’s Core Services Review and municipal budget process. …
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Healthy Housing Quality Lab
…cross-system dialogue on healthy housing quality for the preservation of quality affordable rental housing in Toronto and further the solutions emerging from the Healthy Housing Quality Solutions Lab. Resources National Housing Strategy Update City of Toronto Resiliency Strategy Tower Renewal Partnership Tower Renewal City of Toronto …
Toronto mayoral election series: Mental health and well-being
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Wellesley Institute is publishing a series examining how mayoral candidates can show leadership and deliver Toronto the Bold—a city that takes wellness, health, and equity seriously to build a better future for every Torontonian, and that takes the lead on doing so. Previously, we have examined housing and public transit….
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Toronto City Council Recommends Improving Access to Health Care for Medically Uninsured Residents
Toronto City Council passed recommendations from the Board of Health building on a Toronto Public Health report on medically uninsured residents. The Wellesley Institute, along with researchers, representatives from Community Health Centres (CHCs), Toronto Public Health, Women’s College Hospital Network on the Uninsured, Association of Ontario Midwives, and frontline physicians,…
Racism, Health & What You Can Do About It
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…Using David Hulchanski`s Three Cities Map, City 3 on the outskirts is predominantly racialized and is becoming poorer while City 1 down town is 84 percent white and getting richer. As the disparities increase so will the racialization of health in Toronto. When different communities are linked the differences between…
So Who Says Inclusionary Housing is a Good Thing?
City of Toronto, Ontario Town of Collingwood Ontario Regional Planning Commissioners of Ontario City of London, Ontario Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association City of Thunder Bay, Ontario Conference Board of Canada Town of Milton, Ontario Cities Centre, University of Toronto Town of Blue Mountains, Ontario City of Toronto The City’s Housing…
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Toronto cannot make it a crime for homeless to sleep
…will make it harder to prevent and end homelessness. FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW Here are five important observations that Toronto City Council, and all Torontonians, should consider as they review the proposal to add a controversial new anti-camping provision to the city’s harmonized Streets By-law: ONE The anti-camping…
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6 Toronto Rental Housing Highlights in the 2016 Census
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…and change Toronto-area growth was predominantly in rental housing in the five years from 2011 to 2016. Of the net 146,000 households added, 85,000 or 58 percent were renting their home. This has changed the overall balance between owners and renters in the Toronto area, raising the share who rent…
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Big win for TCHC tenants and for all of Toronto: Affordable homes saved!
…federal and provincial housing programs were gutted in the 1990s. Ontario’s most recent budget continued the provincial cuts to housing, and the province has also announced an additional $21 million in cuts to housing and homeless programs in Toronto. The latest annual report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the…
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An Annotated Christmas Carol for 2012
…to have1,416,766 bednights (one woman, man or child in one bed for one night) during 2012 – an increase of 61,490 bednights from 2011 (that’s a 4.5% increase in one year). “The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” said Scrooge. “Both very busy, sir.” Toronto police…