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Practical and pragmatic steps to reduce poverty, health inequalities and housing insecurity

Canada can take practical and pragmatic steps to avoid falling farther behind other countries when it comes to poverty, poor health and housing insecurity. That’s the message that the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Affordable Housing and Social Innovation, Michael Shapcott, will deliver to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities during its public hearings in Toronto on June 2, 2009. Key components of a national campaign to reduce poverty are a national housing plan built from the community up, a national initiative to strengthen the social (third) sector, a national community health plan and a national campaign to reduce health inequalities.

Read the Wellesley Institute submission to the HUMA committee here .

See the latest status report on federal housing funding here .

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.