…2013 municipal budget that makes deep cuts to housing and homelessness funding. Among the cuts being proposed is a 51% cut in funding for new affordable housing – down from$49 million in 2012 to $24 million in 2013. All the funding for new affordable housing in Toronto comes from federal…
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Community Knowledge Program
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…partnerships among academia and community-based groups to improve research about migration, settlement, and integration in the GTA. https://youtu.be/o5MqIOxmz9Q Panelists: Ruth Wilson, PhD candidate University of Toronto Paulina Wyrzykowski, Director of Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership Sultana Jahangir, Executive Director South Asian Women and Immigrants’ Services Research in Action: The Effects…
Toronto Housing Action Plan: Who will it be for?
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…more details on City Council’s December 14th, 2022 direction to staff to create a Housing Action Plan. The motion’s call for more housing in Toronto is desperately needed. Planning to grow and expand non-profit and co-op homes is wise, as is expanding the current Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program. Public data…
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Toronto mayoral election series: Housing
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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. First, we examine housing, an issue we expect…
Driving Health on the Gardiner
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…Health report found that air pollution accounted for 1,300 premature deaths and 3,550 hospitalizations in Toronto each year. Vehicle emissions accounted for 280 premature deaths and 1,090 hospitalizations. There are other ways that the way we move around cities impacts our health that are critical to consider, but are perhaps…
Safer, healthier housing for Toronto
Extreme heat kills and smog kills. Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health has reported that, in an average year, 120 Torontonians die prematurely from heat, and another 822 die prematurely from smog (based on survey of annual death statistics from 1954 to 2000). Low-income people, the elderly, children and those with…
Toronto Exec calls for TCHC task force as Drummond report calls for increased federal / Ontario housing support
Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee has rejected a request from its Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) Board of Directors to sell off 740 homes in 675 buildings, and is instead calling on Councillor Ana Bailao, chair of Council’s Affordable Housing Committee, to chair a special task force. The Wellesley Institute…
(Postal) Coded Meanings: Toronto Life’s Neighbourhood Rankings and Rising Inequality
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This month, Toronto Life published its list of the top neighbourhoods in Toronto, ranking every neighbourhood in the city from ‘best’ to ‘worst.’ Lists and rankings have become a mainstay of how we entertain ourselves, and are often harmless fun, but this ranking at best plays up already entrenched perceptions,…
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Sell-off of 900 TCHC homes: Facts and options
Toronto’s affordable housing waiting list hit an all-time record of 78,604 households in May, but that hasn’t stopped Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s one-man board Case Ootes from recommending the sell-off of up to 900 affordable TCHC homes. Ootes says there is no option but to cannibalize current TCHC stock to…
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Vertical Poverty: Setting out compelling evidence, offering pragmatic solutions
Toronto’s geographic concentration of poverty continues to grow – and with that comes greater inequality, more precarious housing and poorer health for people and communities. Vertical Poverty, a new report from the United Way Toronto (UWT), provides powerful new evidence that poverty is increasingly concentrated in the city’s 1,000 high-rise…
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