Winter Cold Brings More Federal Funding Chill
The new year brought skin-blistering cold to many parts of Canada. The extreme cold weather was a somber reminder of the critical importance of good quality, affordable housing for the personal health...
View ArticleToronto Faces More Housing Funding Cuts
Cold and blustery winds from elsewhere can drop Toronto into the deep freeze. That’s certainly true on the weather front, as the extreme cold alert declared by the City of Toronto at the start of 2014...
View ArticleRemoving Barriers To Family-Friendly Housing
Melbourne, Australia, like Toronto and many other cities around the world, is facing a shortage of affordable housing for families even as the private market builds relatively small new homes. Prof...
View ArticleNew Minimum Wage About Half Affordable Housing Wage
The Ontario government has announced that the minimum wage will move to $11 on June 1. My colleague Sheila Block has drawn the links between the minimum wage, racialized workers and poor health. But...
View ArticleWhat’s My Big Idea? An Affordable Housing Trust Fund For Toronto
An affordable housing trust fund to deliver steady funding for desperately needed new affordable and healthy homes – that’s the Big Idea from the Housing and Innovation practice here at the Wellesley...
View ArticleFederal Budget 2014 Fails To Deliver Housing Investments To Meet National Needs
Budgets are about priorities. Canada’s federal budget 2014 has failed to allocate a single new dollar for critical housing investments – despite the overwhelming national need and a growing chorus of...
View ArticleHousing And Homelessness: Lenten Reflections
Housing and homelessness are not just concerns for the city centre. The Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Homelessness, Michael Shapcott, delivered a presentation on March 19 to the Social...
View ArticleHomes For All: Social Housing In Toronto And Canada
The Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, presented to students at the University of Pennsylvania in March 2014 in Philadelphia. He focused on the links between...
View ArticleEnding Homelessness In Kingston
Community forum and seminar with Queen’s University students, February 28, 2014: Presentation notes from the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott.
View ArticleThe State Of Social Housing In Toronto And Canada: A Presentation To...
The Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, joined the City of Toronto Director of Affordable Housing, Sean Gadon, at a seminar with University of Toronto students...
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