Ryan Meili on his new book A Healthy Society at the Wellesley Institute from Wellesley Institute on Vimeo.
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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
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Ryan Meili on his new book A Healthy Society at the Wellesley Institute from Wellesley Institute on Vimeo.
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This presentation by Michael Shapcott (2006) provides an overview of urban health issues in Canada, as well as the international context. Also provides historical information about housing/homelessness in Canada, and statistics about Toronto neighbourhoods. Here is the presentation: Ripped from the Headlines!!! Housing, Homelessness: Issues and Solutions View more documents from WellesleyInstitute.
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Chile’s “social housing” approach since the late 1970s allowed hundreds of thousands of poor families to become home owners, and strengthened construction activity in the national economy. However, the low-cost and low-quality housing that was produced has increased socio-spatial discrimination,
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The right to housing is linked to other critical social and economic rights and issues, including habitat and employment, said Habitat International Coalition President Lorena Zarate in a community forum at the Wellesley Institute on Feb. 14, 2013. This group of groups has been bundled together into a new collective right called the ‘right to […]
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This past week Wellesley Institute along with leading partner MASS LBP (thanks Peter MacLeod and staff), Metcalf Foundation (thanks Colette Murphy), and CCPA sponsored what became a cross-Canada lecture tour based on Richard Wilkinson’s bestseller, The Spirit Level, co-authored with Kate Pickett.
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As Canadian rental and ownership housing markets teeter on the brink of major crisis, the federal government has made further drastic cuts in affordable housing investments in 2008 – and even more cuts are set for the end of the current fiscal year.
Continue ReadingReverse the housing cuts: New federal affordable housing investment required
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The massive funding cuts and erosion of national housing programs in the 1990s continues to fuel a Canada-wide crisis in affordable and adequate housing. That’s the policy finding in the housing chapter of the 2014 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), released February 5 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The AFB calls for the federal […]
Continue ReadingReverse Erosion Of Federal Housing Investments, Urges AFB
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Post by Emily Wong, A Consultant of the Wellesley Institute The Wellesley Institute was lucky to have here today the launch of Rethinking Women and Healthy Living*, hosted by Ontario Women’s Health Network. The presentation started with a look into sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) and the need to rethink and reframe the “healthy living” […]
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The Response to the Social Assistance Review Discussion Paper is the second formal submission that the Wellesley Institute, in partnership with a number of health sector leaders, has made to the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario. In this paper, we argue that: The Commission must further specify a comprehensive vision of a […]
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In 2008, the Canadian Home Builders Association commissioned Altus Clayton to write a report that is very critical of Inclusionary Housing. This report has been used as the basis for arguments that municipalities should not use IH policies to try to increase the supply of affordable housing. The Wellesley Institute commissioned David Rusk, a leading […]
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We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.