…list underlines the urgent need to preserve and maintain Toronto’s existing affordable housing stock. Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee recently unanimously endorsed a plan by Councillor Ana Bailao’s special working group to preserve most of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s single family homes that had previously been targeted for sell-off….
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Why Toronto’s rich and poor are hospitalized for different reasons, and what we can do about this
Earlier this week, the Centre for Research on Inner City Health released a report linking patient incomes to types of admissions to hospitals in the Toronto Central LHIN. The report found that people with low and high incomes in Toronto are hospitalized for different reasons: More high income patients received…
New Minimum Wage About Half Affordable Housing Wage
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…an employee working full-time for an entire year would still only earn about half the affordable housing wage – the amount of money required to live in a one-bedroom apartment in Toronto. The average market rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the City of Toronto, according to the latest survey…
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Are you a caregiver for a family member or friend who has recovered from COVID-19 but has ongoing symptoms?
…of age or older Live in the Greater Toronto Area (Halton, Peel, York, City of Toronto, Durham) We want to learn about the impact of ongoing symptoms from COVID-19 on the lives and well-being of people in the Greater Toronto Area, and their families, friends or loved ones. We are…
Good news for TCHC tenants and all of Toronto: Refinancing deal yields big gains
Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee will consider a detailed financing plan at its March 20, 2013, meeting to generate $94 million in funding as part of a long-term strategy to restore financial stability to Toronto Community Housing Corporation. The plan would inject much-needed dollars into long-overdue capital repairs. The financing…
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Welcoming New Wellesley Staff
…minority groups, and social exclusion. Her doctoral thesis examined the determinants of health and nutrition among young children in new immigrant families living in Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood. Greg Suttor As an independent consultant, Greg Suttor has been a housing researcher and policy advisor for Toronto municipal governments. He…
Wellesley Institute Policy Position – Housing
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…requires swift, significant action on multiple fronts. Governments and political parties must commit to measurable goals they will meet each year until the above vision is achieved. The federal, provincial, and municipal government of Toronto have all previously committed to ending or greatly reducing chronic homelessness, with ten years as…
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500 homeless dead – and counting!
…the three weeks since its launch, the Blueprint has been gathering momentum. David Miller, who was re-elected as Toronto’s Mayor on Monday, publicly endorsed the Blueprint in the final week of the election campaign. Support for the plan is growing across the city. Check out the Blueprint here. – Michael…
Green Space in the City: How Toronto’s Green Spaces Promote Mental Health
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Some neighbourhoods in Toronto with high amounts of green space have some of the poorest mental health. This is contrary to the evidence that demonstrates that green spaces have a positive effect on mental health and well-being, so we need to think about what is happening in these spaces. If…
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Community safety and security, gun violence and population health
…July 15 article in the Toronto Star under the headline Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods: Money to stem poverty, violent crime about to dry up includes information about cuts to community grants that support a range of initiatives in Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods – 13 of the city’s neediest communities. Ontario’s children and…
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