MORE RESOURCES DESCRIBING THE CAUSES AND AFFECTS OF POVERTY:
Laying the Foundation: A Preliminary Baseline of Housing and Homelessness in Durham Region http://www.cdcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LayingFoundation2015.pdf
Durham Region Housing Report, Background Paper #4, Specialized Housing Needs
https://www.durham.ca/departments/planed/planning/HousingReview/directions_reports/2012-J-45-Attachment.pdf
Citizens for Public Justice, Poverty Trends Scorecard, Canada 2012
http://www.cpj.ca/files/docs/poverty-trends-scorecard.pdf
Association of Ontario Health Centres, A Journey Through Poverty https://www.aohc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Journey%20Through%20Poverty.pdf
Canada Without Poverty, "Just the Facts" http://www.cwp-csp.ca/poverty/just-the-facts/
http://www.dignityforall.ca/en/research
Canada Mental Health Association, Strategies for Reducing Poverty in Ontario
http://ontario.cmha.ca/public_policy/strategies-for-reducing-poverty-in-ontario/
Citizens for Public Justice, On the Margins: A Glimpse of Poverty in Canada
http://www.cpj.ca/research-reports
AND SEE THE ENDNOTES BELOW. THEY CONTAIN A WEALTH OF FURTHER INFORMATION
"ABOUT POVERTY" ENDNOTES
[i] Canada Without Poverty (2016), Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the 57th Session of the Committee (22 February 2016 – 04 March 2016), available at: http://www.cwp-csp.ca/resources/resources/submission-committee-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-57th-session.
[ii] Statistics Canada, Table 206-0003, Canadian Income Survey (CIS), persons in low income, Canada and provinces, Tables selected for Geographic Region Ontario. Citizens for Public Justice, “Poverty Trends Highlights Canada 2013,” available at: http://cpj.ca/poverty-trends-highlights-canada-2013.
[iii] Metroland Media. DurhamRegion.com (Sept. 5, 2015) “Top 10 lowest-income neighbourhoods in Durham Region,” available at: http://www.durhamregion.com/whatson-story/5824874-top-10-lowest-income-neighbourhoods-in-durham-region/; City of Toronto, 2011 Neighbourhood Census / NHS Profile, NHS Languages, Immigration, Income, Regent Park, available at http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=ae17962c8c3f0410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD.
[iv] Daily Bread Food Bank, Who's Hungry, 2013 Profile of Hunger in the GTA, available at: http://www.dailybread.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WhosHungry2013FINAL.pdf; Durham District School Board, “Make a Difference” (2013), available at: http://www.ddsb.ca/Programs/EarlyYears/Make_a_Difference/Documents/Early%20Years%20Initiative%20Booklet%20Report.pdf; Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Greater Trouble in Greater Toronto: Child Poverty in the GTA (2008), available at: http://www.torontocas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/castchildpovertyreportdec2008.pdf.
[v] Ontario Association of Food Banks, The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario (November 2008), available at http://www.oafb.ca/assets/pdfs/CostofPoverty.pdf.
[vi] Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice, Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada, available at: http://www.cwp-csp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DignityForAll_Report-English-FINAL.compressed.pdf; Daily Food Bank, ibid.
[vii] Ontario Common Front, Falling Behind: Ontario’s Backslide into Widening Inequality, Growing Poverty and Cuts to Social Programs (August 29, 2012), available at: http://ofl.ca/index.php/ontario-common-front-report-puts-inequality-news/.
[viii] Broadbent Institute, The Wealth Gap: Perceptions and Misconceptions in Canada (December 2014), [using Statistics Canada figures], available at: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/broadbent/pages/31/attachments/original/1430002077/The_Wealth_Gap.pdf?1430002077.
[ix] Toronto Star, April 17, 2013, “Poverty Costs Us Billions,” available at: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/04/17/poverty_costs_us_billions_fiorito.html ; Ontario Association of Food Banks, The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario (November 2008), available at http://www.oafb.ca/assets/pdfs/CostofPoverty.pdf.
[x] Stephen Gaetz, Tanya Gulliver, & Tim Richter, “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2014,” Homeless Hub Press, 2014, available at: http://homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/SOHC2014.pdf; Canada Without Poverty (2016), “Just the Facts,” available at: http://www.cwp-csp.ca/poverty/just-the-facts/.
[xi] Durham Region, Durham Region Housing Review, Background Report No. 5, “Community Consultations” (January 2014), available at: https://www.durham.ca/departments/planed/planning/housingreview/joint_committee_reports/2014-J-3.pdf; Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (2012) “Canadian Definition of Homelessness.” Homeless Hub: www.homelesshub.ca/homelessdefinition/.
[xii] Community Legal Education Ontario, “OW and ODSP Rates and OCB as of Oct 2015,” available at http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/resource/ow-and-odsp-rates-and-ocb-oct-2015; Durham Region, Durham Region Housing Review, Background Report No. 3, “Housing Affordability” (January 2014), available at: https://www.durham.ca/departments/planed/planning/HousingReview/directions_reports/2011-J-30Attachment.pdf.
http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/sites/all/files/OW_and_ODSP_rates_and_OCB_as_of_Oct-2015.pdf.
[xiii] Ontario Association of Food Banks, “Hunger Report 2015,” available at: http://www.oafb.ca/hungerreport2015.
[xiv] Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael, “Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts,” Toronto: York University; http://www.durham.ca/departments/health/food_nutrition/com_nutrition/foodBasket.pdf
School of Health Policy and Management, 2010, available at: http://www.thecanadianfacts.org/the_canadian_facts.pdf; Rose (Vicky) Maldonado, “Interventions for At-Risk Youth in High Poverty Neighborhoods,” Hamilton: McMaster-Community Poverty Initiative, McMaster University, 2012, available at: http://poverty.mcmaster.ca/documents/mcpi-report-30may11-updated-mar-14-2012.pdf.
[xv] Benjamin Earl and Dr. Shahid Alvi, “Giving Voice to Poverty in the Region of Durham,” Community Development Council Durham (September 2011), available at: http://www.cdcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/poverty_report_2011.pdf
[ii] Statistics Canada, Table 206-0003, Canadian Income Survey (CIS), persons in low income, Canada and provinces, Tables selected for Geographic Region Ontario. Citizens for Public Justice, “Poverty Trends Highlights Canada 2013,” available at: http://cpj.ca/poverty-trends-highlights-canada-2013.
[iii] Metroland Media. DurhamRegion.com (Sept. 5, 2015) “Top 10 lowest-income neighbourhoods in Durham Region,” available at: http://www.durhamregion.com/whatson-story/5824874-top-10-lowest-income-neighbourhoods-in-durham-region/; City of Toronto, 2011 Neighbourhood Census / NHS Profile, NHS Languages, Immigration, Income, Regent Park, available at http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=ae17962c8c3f0410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD.
[iv] Daily Bread Food Bank, Who's Hungry, 2013 Profile of Hunger in the GTA, available at: http://www.dailybread.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WhosHungry2013FINAL.pdf; Durham District School Board, “Make a Difference” (2013), available at: http://www.ddsb.ca/Programs/EarlyYears/Make_a_Difference/Documents/Early%20Years%20Initiative%20Booklet%20Report.pdf; Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Greater Trouble in Greater Toronto: Child Poverty in the GTA (2008), available at: http://www.torontocas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/castchildpovertyreportdec2008.pdf.
[v] Ontario Association of Food Banks, The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario (November 2008), available at http://www.oafb.ca/assets/pdfs/CostofPoverty.pdf.
[vi] Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice, Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada, available at: http://www.cwp-csp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DignityForAll_Report-English-FINAL.compressed.pdf; Daily Food Bank, ibid.
[vii] Ontario Common Front, Falling Behind: Ontario’s Backslide into Widening Inequality, Growing Poverty and Cuts to Social Programs (August 29, 2012), available at: http://ofl.ca/index.php/ontario-common-front-report-puts-inequality-news/.
[viii] Broadbent Institute, The Wealth Gap: Perceptions and Misconceptions in Canada (December 2014), [using Statistics Canada figures], available at: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/broadbent/pages/31/attachments/original/1430002077/The_Wealth_Gap.pdf?1430002077.
[ix] Toronto Star, April 17, 2013, “Poverty Costs Us Billions,” available at: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/04/17/poverty_costs_us_billions_fiorito.html ; Ontario Association of Food Banks, The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario (November 2008), available at http://www.oafb.ca/assets/pdfs/CostofPoverty.pdf.
[x] Stephen Gaetz, Tanya Gulliver, & Tim Richter, “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2014,” Homeless Hub Press, 2014, available at: http://homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/SOHC2014.pdf; Canada Without Poverty (2016), “Just the Facts,” available at: http://www.cwp-csp.ca/poverty/just-the-facts/.
[xi] Durham Region, Durham Region Housing Review, Background Report No. 5, “Community Consultations” (January 2014), available at: https://www.durham.ca/departments/planed/planning/housingreview/joint_committee_reports/2014-J-3.pdf; Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (2012) “Canadian Definition of Homelessness.” Homeless Hub: www.homelesshub.ca/homelessdefinition/.
[xii] Community Legal Education Ontario, “OW and ODSP Rates and OCB as of Oct 2015,” available at http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/resource/ow-and-odsp-rates-and-ocb-oct-2015; Durham Region, Durham Region Housing Review, Background Report No. 3, “Housing Affordability” (January 2014), available at: https://www.durham.ca/departments/planed/planning/HousingReview/directions_reports/2011-J-30Attachment.pdf.
http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/sites/all/files/OW_and_ODSP_rates_and_OCB_as_of_Oct-2015.pdf.
[xiii] Ontario Association of Food Banks, “Hunger Report 2015,” available at: http://www.oafb.ca/hungerreport2015.
[xiv] Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael, “Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts,” Toronto: York University; http://www.durham.ca/departments/health/food_nutrition/com_nutrition/foodBasket.pdf
School of Health Policy and Management, 2010, available at: http://www.thecanadianfacts.org/the_canadian_facts.pdf; Rose (Vicky) Maldonado, “Interventions for At-Risk Youth in High Poverty Neighborhoods,” Hamilton: McMaster-Community Poverty Initiative, McMaster University, 2012, available at: http://poverty.mcmaster.ca/documents/mcpi-report-30may11-updated-mar-14-2012.pdf.
[xv] Benjamin Earl and Dr. Shahid Alvi, “Giving Voice to Poverty in the Region of Durham,” Community Development Council Durham (September 2011), available at: http://www.cdcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/poverty_report_2011.pdf
