{"id":525,"date":"2019-11-18T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:26:18","slug":"city-of-toronto-poverty-reduction-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/city-of-toronto-poverty-reduction-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Scarborough-Guildwood Residents <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spring of 2016, City Council supported my motion on\nData regarding deaths in Toronto&#8217;s Homeless Community. This motion recommended\nthe following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>That appropriate staff collect all relevant data\nrelated to deaths within and outside of the City&#8217;s homeless shelters; <\/li><li>That this data be shared publicly to City\ndivisions, agencies and Provincial ministries; and <\/li><li>To introduce and gain support of a provincial\nmandate to track all homeless deaths for further policy and legislation\npurposes <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on this item can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/app.toronto.ca\/tmmis\/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2016.MM17.9\">here.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the November 14<sup>th<\/sup> Executive Committee meeting,\nrecommendations for City Council to adopt a 2019-2022 Poverty Reduction\nStrategy Term Action Plan was approved, to be considered at the November 26<sup>th<\/sup>\nCity Council meeting. This item is in part to follow the adoption of a 20-year\n(2015-2035) Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy which was approved by City\nCouncil in November 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019-2022 Term Action Plan recommends to include a\nseries of actions and activities aligned with the strategy&#8217;s original\nrecommendations which focus on housing stability, service access,\ntransportation equity, food access, quality jobs and livable incomes, and\nsystematic change. More information on this item can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/app.toronto.ca\/tmmis\/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.EX10.1\">here.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the Executive Committee supported my motions\nrequesting appropriate staff to create Open Data datasets on the following\nareas: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tracking information on homeless deaths,\nincluding medical cause of death, date, gender, Indigenous status and location\nof death; <\/li><li>Information in individuals and families placed\nin time limited emergency housing during crisis or illness; and <\/li><li>Outlines on unsheltered street homeless to\ngeneral population ratio for Toronto and other major Canadian cities, after\neach Street Needs Assessment. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The absence of data on the number of homeless individuals\nthat pass outside the boundaries of the City&#8217;s shelter systems provide a false\naccount of the true circumstances facing those who live on the streets of\nToronto. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People in the City and in Canada should not be dying on our\nstreets. If they do, we should understand why, so that it never happens again.\nEvery person counts. Every person has a right to live with dignity, and\nunfortunately, if they pass away, to pass with dignity as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All my Best, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul W. Ainslie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Scarborough-Guildwood Residents In the spring of 2016, City Council supported my motion on Data regarding deaths in Toronto&#8217;s Homeless Community. This motion recommended the following: That appropriate staff collect all relevant data related to deaths within and outside of the City&#8217;s homeless shelters; That this data be shared publicly to City divisions, agencies and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/city-of-toronto-poverty-reduction-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}