Research and reports
Learn more about Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty
To learn more about the newest report from United Way Toronto, you can visit the web pages by clicking here.
UWT report Losing Ground impacts Ontario law
On June 9, 2008, the Ontario Legislature passed Bill 48, the Payday Loans Act, with support from all parties. The new law will regulate the payday lending industry, as recommended by United Way Toronto in its report, Losing Ground.
During debate in the Legislature at Third Reading, the Hon. Ted McMeekin, Minister of Government and Consumer Services and his Parliamentary Assistant, Charles Sousa, MP, cited Losing Ground for highlighting the growth in payday lending outlets and quoted from our brief to the committee.
Working at the forefront of change
United Way Toronto invests in research to build evidence-based strategies to change community conditions. By sharing our ideas and findings, we work to raise the understanding of the diverse civic, social and economic fabric of our city, and how we can affect real, lasting change in areas of our community where it’s needed most.
United Way Toronto’s newest report, Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty: Declining Income, Housing Quality and Community Life in Toronto’s Inner Suburban High-Rise Apartments, presents new data on the growing concentration of poverty in the City of Toronto and the role that high-rise housing is playing in this trend. The report tracks the continued growth in the spatial concentration of poverty in Toronto neighbourhoods, and in high-rise buildings within neighbourhoods. It then examines the quality of life that high-rise buildings are providing to tenants today. Its primary focus is on privately owned building stock in Toronto’s inner suburbs. This research is part of United Way’s Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy.
Along with Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty, United Way Toronto has released other reports, including Strong Neighbourhoods: A Call to Action (2005), Poverty by Postal Code (2004) and Decade of Decline (2002).
Along with Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty, the findings of these reports will continue to inform and shape the future advocacy and development work within our community, creating a better future for all.
