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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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CBC Marketplace investigation probes many complaints against big private landlord

A good place to call home is one of the most fundamental determinants of health. Research from the Wellesley Institute and others draw strong links between poor housing and homelessness, and increased illness and early death. CBC Marketplace has investigated numerous complaints from tenants at one of Canada’s largest private landlords – and their powerful report raises many questions about whether negligent practices by some private landlords are making their tenants sick. The Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, is featured in the Marketplace investigative report.

The full episode here: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2012/troubleforrent/

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

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.