Why Toronto needs a national housing strategy

Summary:
Dr. Colin Phillips is an up-and-coming scholar in Canada’s homelessness sector. He has an opinion piece in today’s Toronto Star titled “Why Toronto needs a national housing strategy.” Points made in the opinion piece include the following: -The City of Toronto has worked hard to develop good practices on the ground to address homelessness. -But, like all of Canada’s major urban centres, it can’t properly address homelessness without substantial increases in funding from the federal and provincial governments. This opinion piece is quite timely, as a new “national housing strategy” is expected to be unveiled by the Trudeau government later this month. On Monday, the Calgary Homeless Foundation will be publishing a peer-reviewed report authored by Dr. Phillips. That report’s focus will be

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Nick Falvo considers the following as important: cities, fiscal federalism, fiscal policy, homeless, housing, income, income support, municipalities, Ontario, Poverty, public infrastructure, public services, social policy, Toronto

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