Poverty reduction needed now
October 17, 2024
Family Service Toronto has endorsed Social Planning Toronto’s (SPT) campaign to press the City of Toronto to release its Poverty Reduction Strategy Third Term Action Plan, which was scheduled to be released more than a year ago and has been postponed multiple times.
“For too long the Poverty Reduction Strategy has been under-funded, under-resourced and not prioritized, despite Toronto’s growing rates of poverty,” SPT states on their website.
The Oct. 17, 2024 endorsement coincided with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty aimed at promoting understanding and dialogue between people living in poverty and the wider society.
The latest data shows that one in 10 Torontonians use the food bank; a quarter of food bank users spend 100 per cent of their income on housing; nearly 90,000 households are on the waiting list for social housing and 13.2 per cent of residents live in poverty.
Use their e-mail template to urge your City Councillor to take action now.
For more information visit Take Action: We Need Poverty Reduction Now.