The City of Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Third Term Action Plan was scheduled to be released over a year ago, and has been postponed multiple times. For too long the Poverty Reduction Strategy has been under-funded, under-resourced and not prioritized, despite Toronto’s growing rates of poverty.
“We need our elected officials to take the Poverty Reduction Strategy seriously, and stop prolonging it when we need to get started.”
—Anonymous worker and foodbank user
Toronto is at a crisis point. The latest data shows that one in 10 Torontonians use the food bank (a 51% increase from previous years); a quarter of food bank users spend 100% of their income on housing; nearly 90,000 households are on the waiting list for social housing; nearly 18,500 children are on the waitlist for a child care fee subsidy; 13.2% of all Torontonians live in poverty.
We need an updated, fully-funded PRS Action Plan with clear, measurable targets to tackle the root causes of poverty.
Use our e-mail template to urge your City Councillor to take action now.