Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital
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...
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Budget proposes deep, built-in cuts to housing and transit and services for vulnerable residents.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Toronto's Faith Leaders unite to push for action on poverty.
Over 100 Leaders from Toronto's prominent faith communities gathered at the Noor Cultural Centre in Toronto to hear from expert panelists and to organize ahead of this year's City Budget.
Social Planning Toronto participates in poverty-focused ‘hackathon’.
On September 17th & 18th, 2016 staff from Social Planning Toronto joined software Developers, data scientists, mappers and idea people to work together and ‘hack’ through challenges outlined in the City’s poverty reduction strategy (TOProsperity).