The powerful links between rising inequality, poor health and precarious housing form a toxic triangle – but there are practical actions that can reduce poverty and income inequality, advance population and personal health and prevent and end homelessness and precarious housing. The Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott joined the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Trish Hennessy and University of Western Ontario economist Mike Moffat and hundreds of Londoners at the City Symposium V forum at the London Public Library on Tuesday.
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Michael Shapcott’s presentation on the toxic triangle
The Wellesley Institute’s Precarious Housing in Canada
The Wellesley Institute’s Poverty is making us sick
The Wellesley Institute’s Work and Health
London’s City Symposium series
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Growing Gap Initiative
The OECD’s 2008 Growing Unequal Report, including a country report on Canada
The OECD’s 2011 Divided We Stand Report, including a country report on Canada
Toronto Public Health’s Unequal City Report
The Three Cities Within Toronto, mapping income polarization