Poverty, Declining Income,
Housing Quality and Community Life in
Toronto's Inner Suburban High-Rise Apartments
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Press Release
Read the official press release from United Way Toronto on Vertical Poverty.
Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty Declining Income, Housing Quality and Community Life in Toronto’s Inner Suburban High-Rise
Download a PDF version of the report.
Executive Summary
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Maps
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Charts
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Tables
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For media inquiries, please contact:
Caitlin Stidwill
Public Relations Officer
CStidwill@uwgt.org
416-777-1444, ext. 396
Media and news updates
Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 12 pm
Read the Torontoist article: The Cost Of Ignoring Our Aging Highrises.
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 3 pm
Read the Globe and Mail article: Aging apartment towers can be humanized.
Monday, December 5, 2011, 12 pm
Read the three-part Star special series: Vertical Toronto: Going, going up.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 3 pm
Listen to Metro Morning: Highrise Living.
Monday, November 7, 2011, 2 pm
Read the Globe and Mail article: The down side of a city that just keeps growing up.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 3 pm
Read the Star article: Poor go to the back of the line for housing.
Friday, January 21, 2011, 12 pm
Read the opinion piece in InsideToronto.com, EDITORIAL: Support needed to improve highrise conditions.
Wednesday, January 19, 10:30 am
Read the InsideToronto.com article, York: United Way Vertical Poverty report has some worrisome results.
Monday, January 17, 2011, 2 pm
Read The Star article, Goar: Slim bridge between Toronto's two solitudes.
Friday, January 14, 2011, 1 pm
Watch the video on TVO's The Agenda, The Interview: David Hulchanski: Toronto's Three Cities.
Friday, January 14, 2011, 1 pm
Read the InsideToronto.com article, United Way launches a study of rental highrises in the inner suburbs..
Friday, January 14, 2011, 9:30 am
Read the Wellesley Institute article, Vertical Poverty: Setting out compelling evidence, offering pragmatic solutions.
Friday, January 14, 2011, 9:30 am
Read the Social Housing Today article, Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty—What Does It Mean For Toronto?
CBC's Matt Galloway speaks with Leticia Boahen, a tenant in a privately owned high-rise at Jane and Sheppard, in this radio interview.
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 9:15 am
Read the article United Way Toronto Report Reveals the Geographic Concentration of Poverty is Growing Vertically-In Inner Suburban High-Rise Apartments from TD Markets News & Commentary.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 2:55 pm
CBC's Matt Galloway speaks with United Way Toronto President and CEO Susan McIsaac about the new report, Vertical Poverty, in this radio interview.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 11:30 am
Read the Globe & Mail article Portrait of a beleaguered tenant where one high-rise resident shares her story of living in a decaying high-rise.
Wednesday, January 12, 2010 11:30 am
Read The Star article Toronto's poor concentrated in aging highrises, which details findings from United Way Toronto's Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty.
Wednesday, January 12, 2010 11:30 am
United Way to Release New Report on Poverty Concentration and Housing. Read the newswire item here.
Wednesday, January 12, 2010 11:30 am
Read the Globe & Mail article Toronto increasingly becoming a city of vertical poverty about the state of high-rises in Toronto and how the city's low-income population is concentrated not only by neighbourhood, but by building.
Wednesday, January 12, 2010 11:30 am
Read The Star article Laundry list of complaints dogs west-end highrises to learn about how residents in two high-rises are dealing with a complex set of issues.
Wednesday, January 12, 2010 11:30 am
Read The Star article Turning a rundown highrise into a community hub to learn how one high-rise went from a dangerous building to a safer space thanks to the San Romanoway Revitalization Association.
