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Homes For Toronto: Presentation On What We Can Learn From Our History

The history of housing in Toronto – and Canada – has been a series of ups and downs. We’ve had many successes, but we’ve also had periods of drought, when precarious housing and homelessness has grown worse. Michael Shapcott, the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, scanned the past century in a presentation to a Ryerson University seminar on October 14.

Ryerson University October 2011 Presentation

 

 

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.