This year’s budget ended as it began – difficult to define and understand. It provided the Mayor and his allies with an opportunity to claim victory for their austerity agenda. It provided some important wins, which once again demonstrated the importance and impact of community organizing. In comparison to the…
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More on Toronto budget 2013 housing and homelessness numbers
Toronto’s 2013 municipal budget sets housing and homelessness spending at $665 million – down $128 million from 2012 and an even bigger cut from 2011’s municipal approved budget of $923 million. While the facts about the specific spending decreases are clear, the analysis around the 2013 budget for Toronto’s Shelter,…
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Jobs and Poverty Reduction: HEIA in the 2014 Mayoral Election
…only 49.4 percent of people working in Toronto having a permanent, full-time job with benefits.5 At $11 per hour,6 Ontario’s minimum wage is not adequate to afford a decent standard of living in Toronto. Moreover, social assistance rates in Ontario are low, with single people on Ontario Works receiving only…
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TO 2007 operating budget: Housing and homelessness cuts
Three governmental budgets have been delivered over the past seven days, and the hundreds of thousands of low, moderate and middle-income Torontonians seeking affordable housing have been left out of all three. The federal budget of March 19 was entirely silent on new affordable housing spending; the provincial budget of…
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Towards a healthier and more equitable 2012: a Wellesley Institute year in review
…we tackled the city budget issue by crunching the numbers; in Countdown to Zero we reported that city was dealing with a fabricated fiscal crisis and demonstrated that options still existed for balancing the city’s budget that did not require gutting the programs and services that contribute to a healthier…
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Moving Beyond Ford, Investing In A Healthier Toronto
…the last three years with capital budgets during the Miller administration and considers Mayor Ford’s plans for the future as laid out in the 2013 budget’s 10-year-capital plan. Toronto’s capital budgets deserve more attention. Every year there is a lively debate about the operating budget. Individual capital investments like transit…
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An Annotated Christmas Carol for 2012
…Bread Food Bank reports a total of 1,123,500 visits to food charities in the Greater Toronto area in 2012 – up 18% from the recession of 2008. The Ontario Association of Food Banks reports 412,998 individuals lined up at food banks in March of 2012, with Food Banks Canada reporting…
Ontario releases cautious 2010 budget
The Ontario government’s 2010 provincial budget sets out a cautious fiscal plan for the coming year. In our 2010 pre-budget submission, the Wellesley Institute encouraged Ontario to invest in equity and innovation to ensure a healthy future. Here is a first glimpse at the Ontario budget and the three core…
Federal budget 2008: Billion-dollar housing / homelessness gap looming
Wellesley Institute federal budget scan: Healthy corporate profits – healthy communities??? Minister Flaherty federal budget fails to offer funding; Billion-dollar housing / homelessness gap is looming Just five days before federal Finance Minister James Flaherty rose in the House of Commons earlier today (February 26) to deliver the 2008 national…
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Fed budget 2009: Billions in new housing spending, but not for those who need it the most
This backgrounder provides a first glimpse at housing in federal budget 2009. Additional housing analysis, and analysis of other key issues and concerns, will be released in the coming days by the Wellesley Institute. BILLIONS IN NEW HOUSING DOLLARS, BUT WHO REALLY BENEFITS: Federal budget 2009 promises to deliver billions…