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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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Rights-based and ambitious: A new chapter for housing policy in Canada 
September 2, 2025
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Nation-building must include social infrastructure
August 5, 2025
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Seniors’ poverty in Canada: Why it exists and why it doesn’t have to
April 16, 2025
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Provincial spending on housing and homelessness in Ontario
February 10, 2025
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Putting rights at the centre of Ontario’s income security and housing policies
February 6, 2025
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What would it take to end chronic homelessness? Now we know
January 29, 2025