Missing Opportunities: How budget policies continue to leave behind low-income students

January 12 2017

Family income is one of the most powerful factors affecting student success. Students from economically and socially marginalized conditions face greater external challenges and consequently...

Make Your Voice Heard On The 2017 Budget

December 20 2016

2017 Budget has been launched, and its impacts on community services, transit and housing is stark. This is your chance to let your Councillor know...

Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital

December 07 2016

Purpose of Report: This report draws from new data to update the 2014 report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in...

Budget proposes deep, built-in cuts to housing and transit and services for vulnerable residents.

December 06 2016

Speaking from Toronto City Hall, Sean Meagher, Executive Director of Social Planning Toronto said: “This budget presents a stark choice for the Mayor and Council: choose...

Poverty costs Toronto up to $5.5 billion each year

November 28 2016

A new report estimates poverty is costing Toronto between $4.5-$5.5 billion each year due to increases in cost to the health and justice system as...

The Cost Of Poverty In Toronto

November 28 2016

This report estimates the price of inaction. Regardless of the strategy used to address poverty, it asks, “What does it cost us to allow poverty...

Five key Council Advisory Committees raise doubts about Mayor’s proposed Budget Cuts

November 23 2016

Today, five advisory committees to Toronto City Council issued letters to Mayor John Tory asking him to reconsider the proposed across-the-board 2.6% budget cuts, citing...

Social Planning Toronto and the SPACE Coalition host policy breakfast on community hubs.

November 15 2016

On Monday, November 14, Special Advisor Karen Pitre joined Social Planning Toronto, the SPACE Coalition and more than 60 community members, service providers, and elected officials to...

Cuts to low-income services proposed as new report says Toronto is Child Poverty Capital of Canada.

November 14 2016

On the eve of potential cuts to city programs and services, a new report has found that Toronto has the highest percentage of children living...

North York residents speak out against proposed cuts to transit and affordable housing during Community Budget Briefing.

October 20 2016

Over 80 residents gathered in North York Memorial Hall last night to learn about the upcoming 2017 City Budget and its impact on transit, housing, shelters and the City's own Poverty Reduction Strategy.