Please mark your calendar and plan to participate in the Wellesley Institute webinar with Senator Art Eggleton. Click here for more information and free registration.

• Far too many Canadians in cities live below any measure of the poverty line

• Too many people struggle to find and maintain affordable housing

• An increasing number of Canadians are homeless

“Despite the thoughtful efforts and many promising practices of …[many], the system that is intended to lift people out of poverty is substantially broken, often entraps people in poverty, and needs an overhaul.”

Join Senator Art Eggleton as he discusses In from the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness, a new report from the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Cities that offers 72 practical recommendations to “go beyond the ‘path dependency’ paralysis that has typified federal and provincial policy under governments of all affiliations for decades.”

This event is free. To participate, all you need is a phone and an internet connection.

Michael Shapcott | Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation | Wellesley Institute 

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E-mail:   michael@wellesleyinstitute.com