Research Publications

Social Planning Toronto provides communities and organizations with the facts they need to make positive change.

Browse our most recent research below.

Advancing the Promise for Toronto’s Children: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2026	Community Wealth Building in Toronto (A Decade in Review 2014-2024)	Caring about Care Workers: Centring Immigrant Women Personal Support Workers in Toronto’s Home Care Sector, Toronto 2025
Fighting For Our Future: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2024	Reimagining Funding and Service Delivery for Newcomers: Considerations for Relational Infrastructure	Reimagining Funding and Service Delivery for Newcomers: Lessons from the Literature and Stakeholders
Advancing Gender Equity in the City of Toronto: Elevating the Voices of Women and Gender Diverse Residents	New City Bylaw Falls Thousands of Units Short on Affordable Housing	New Research Reveals the Racial, Social, and Geographic Divides of Toronto’s Housing Crisis
More than 1,400 Torontonians Tell City Council What They Want to See in Our City’s Pandemic Recovery	Senior Poverty & Inequity: The Toronto Experience	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Report Examines Toronto’s Problems After 10 Years of Austerity
New Research on the U.S. Housing Choice Voucher Program Offers Lessons for Canada	A City Left Behind: Poverty Reduction, Election Promises, and the 2019 Budget	How to Hub: Community Hub Development Toolkit
2018 Toronto Child & Family Poverty Report: Municipal Election Edition	Talking Access & Equity

Older research reports were divided into the following three categories. Click on any of the links to see our archived publications: 

• Income security and labour markets
• Public education and human development
• Community infrastructure, public finance and resource allocation