Ontario Budget 2025: Our response
Wellesley Institute provided advice to all parties throughout the course of the recent provincial election, making recommendations on ensuring everyone…
Good quality, affordable and right-sized housing fosters good health. Inadequate housing is directly linked to higher rates of illness and death. Addressing issues like homelessness, the need for new homes, upgrades to existing housing, rent supplements, the need for supportive housing, and emergency relief and eviction prevention is important for building healthy communities.
2025 Federal Election series: Analysis of party platforms on housing
Wellesley Institute’s 2025 Federal Election series laid out our recommendations for what federal parties can do to advance health equity…
Policy brief: Bold action on supportive housing
Ontario faces three crises in housing – attainability, affordability and homelessness. We cannot solve these crises without supportive housing. Supportive…
Federal Liberal Leadership series: Analysis of housing proposals
The Liberal Party of Canada leadership race is coming to a close. The successful candidate will at some point run…
Ontario Election series: Analysis of party platforms on housing
Wellesley Institute’s Ontario Election 2025 series laid out our recommendations for what provincial party leaders can do to advance health…
Ontario Election series: Analysis of party platforms on health system equity
Wellesley Institute’s Ontario Election 2025 series laid out our recommendations for what provincial party leaders can do to advance health…
Ontario Election series: Housing for all
Ontario’s next provincial election is fast approaching on February 27. As the election candidates roll out their platforms, they must…
Federal Liberal leadership series: On housing
The Liberal Party of Canada leadership race is underway. The successful candidate will run in an upcoming federal election that…
City of Toronto Budget 2025: Our recommendations
Residents across the City of Toronto experience significant disparities in housing, income and mental health and well-being. These inequities create…
Aging while homeless: The growing crisis of older adults in Toronto’s shelter system
Our system is failing older adults experiencing homelessness. They are showing up in Toronto’s shelters in increasing numbers and that…
Homelessness is a policy failure, not a crime
The number of people living in encampments across the province has been growing in recent years. At least 1,400 encampments…
Jurisdictional scan: Strategies to support homeless 2SLGBTQ+ communities
Evidence shows 2SLGBTQ+ communities in Canada experience higher rates of homelessness. They face unique barriers to housing, and there are…