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From data to action: Policy implications of Welfare in Canada, 2024

September 9, 2025

This policy brief shows how social assistance and associated benefits keep people in deep poverty, and offers recommendations to raise incomes, fix shelter benefits, and redesign the Canada Disability Benefit.

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Dear Minister: We urge you to reconsider your cuts to the Interim Housing Assistance Program immediately
September 24, 2025
Opinion

Canada and Ontario can afford dignified shelter for refugees: Our reputation can’t afford our failure
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Sheltering human rights: Why Toronto must act on Ombudsman’s recommendations
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Making the case for constitutional power for Canadian cities
November 14, 2024
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un/SHELTERED: Toronto Design Challenge encourages creative ideas to address the City of Toronto’s housing crisis
August 27, 2024
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To solve homelessness, we need an entrepreneurial approach, not more bureaucracy