…in the system. The proposed budget promises an increase of $1 billion over three years for the provincial home care budget, and a refundable Ontario Seniors Care at Home Tax Credit for low- to moderate-income senior families, initially costed at $110 million per year. The budget would invest $100 million…
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Federal Budget 2024: Positive steps, but still no targets
…we hope future budgets will take this much more seriously. Wellesley Institute’s recommendations for this year’s federal budget called for action in four areas we believe are acute and crucial to Canada’s future: Create and implement of a national health equity plan. Establish an acceptable level of resources that ensures…
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People care about the kind of city they live in: Toronto City Budget
Thanks to the powerful interventions of many groups and individuals across the city, Toronto has a municipal budget that preserves many critical programs and services that had been targeted for deep cuts by the Ford administration. However, these programs and services should never have been on the chopping block in…
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City of Toronto Budget 2024: Our input
The release of the City of Toronto’s Mayor’s Budget 2024 proposes much-needed investments into areas that are key to advancing health equity in the city. Wellesley Institute welcomes the increased funding towards improving and expanding access to critical services for tenants, preserving affordable housing units, and speeding up the development…
More on Toronto budget 2013 housing and homelessness numbers
…its course. The investment has been used to fund necessary repairs to social housing, but a huge unfunded social housing repair bill remains both at TCHC and among other social housing providers. Toronto’s 2013 budget notes for housing and homelessness here. Toronto’s 2012 budget notes for housing and homelessness here….
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Ontario Budget 2012: Duncan chooses path that hurts the poorest Ontarians
In the lead up to the Ontario budget, the Wellesley Institute asked whether Minister Duncan would choose a road of fiscal prudence, or whether he would adopt the austerity agenda of his opponents. Today he chose the austerity agenda. In his speech today, Minister Duncan said that we all have…
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Building a great city!
…the business sectors are calling for proper investments. In July, Don Drummond, Chief Economist of the TD Bank, estimated in a major new research report that the City of Toronto’s structural deficit was between $700 million and $1.1 billion. “The City’s structural deficit acts as a financial straightjacket, limiting its…
Good news: Council rejects mass sell-off of TCHC homes, adopts plan for special commission
…of TCHC homes (June 2011) Selling off affordable homes bad for Toronto’s health (November 2011) More resources on TCHC and housing, including letters from former Mayors (January 2012) Wellesley Institute submission calls for special TCHC commission (January 2012) Drummond report calls for increased spending on housing (February 2012)…
Missing in Action (Plan): Equity
The Ontario government plans to conduct reviews of provincial spending. This both responds to the Drummond report call for more efficient and innovative government delivery and aims to more proactively identify room for improving effectiveness and impact before problems are uncovered – and publicized – by the Auditor General. The…
The 2012 Ontario Budget: Look Out For Affordable Housing
…new affordable housing and maintain existing homes. “Ontario Budget 2012 – What to look for: Affordable Housing,” provides an overview of the current fiscal landscape for affordable housing in the province, details the recommendations for increased housing investments included in the recently released Drummond Report on provincial spending, and sets…
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