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Sheila Block

Big cuts planned for Toronto housing funding

The City of Toronto’s Shelter, Support and Housing is set to take a massive $128 million cut in housing and homelessness investments in the draft 2013 budget – down from $793 million in 2012 to $665 million in the coming year. The 2012 budget had, in turn, a $130 million cut from its approved budget of $923 million in 2011. That adds up to a 16% cut in this year – 28 percent cut over two years (a loss of $258 million).

 

Read our flip sheet on Building Better Budgets for Toronto – Housing.

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Sheila Block

Sheila Block

Sheila Block was Director, Economic Analysis at the Wellesley Institute 2010-2015. Sheila is an economist whose research interests include labour markets and public finance. Sheila joined Wellesley Institute in 2010 after more than 15 years of advocacy and research for organizations including the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. She has also worked both as a political advisor and public servant in the Ontario government.

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