What's New?

• Fall Day of Action on Poverty and Housing-Endorse Now & check the organizations that have endorsed to date

• Research finds homeless experience more violence. Backgrounder - Michael Shapcott

• U.S. homeless czar preaches action as U.S. government cuts funding. Backgrounder - Michael Shapcott

• Toronto Homeless Memorial Website

• "Dying for a Home" A new book by Cathy Crowe

• Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money? - Michael Shapcott

• Watch this video to learn about the failure of New York City's homelessness strategy, an approach now being tried in Toronto
   

• A Picture of Housing Needs in Ontario 2006 report by Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association

• New housing and homelessness online resource: wiki 

• Toronto operating budget 2007 housing needs report by Michael Shapcott of the Wellesley Institute

• Cathy Crowe's speech at the Toronto City Summit 

• Alternative budget and Ontario housing needs report by Michael Shapcott of the Wellesley Institute 

• Provincial Pre-Budget submissions from TDRC and Health Providers Against Poverty

• Want to know what has TDRC been up to recently? Check out our list of 2006 achievements! 

• Stay on top of the fight for money for federal funding! We need your help now. Check out  National Issues page!

• Monitor our ongoing work about heat emergencies in our Killer Heat section.

• Street Count  - The City has completed its Street Needs Assessment. Results were presented to Council in July 2006 and passed.

• Teaching Guide for Colleges & Universities

• Cathy Crowe Newsletter: Atkinson Fellowship Award winner, Cathy Crowe's webpage on her work around national homelessness issues.
   

Next General Meeting: 

The next TDRC General Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. at 6 St. Joseph House. St. Joseph Street is one street north of Wellesley and west of Yonge Street. NOTE the new location!!

Phone the TDRC office at 416-599-8372 for directions or more information.

@ TDRC 

The Blueprint to End Homelessness by Michael Shapcott and the Wellesley Institute provides a detailed history, an overview and costed solutions to Toronto's housing crisis.

Spring Offensive by Beric German. Commentary editorial on Canada's role in the war.

Speech by Cathy Crowe at a Homelessness Symposium in Sarnia, Nov 9-10th.

Resolution: End Homelessness in Canada

TB or not TB? There is no question: a Report of a Public Inquiry into the state of Tuberculosis within Toronto's Homeless Population (from the TB Action Group - released June 2003)

Shelter Inspection Report: a Report of Conditions in Toronto's Shelter System (released in May 2003)

Many of the documents on TDRC's website are downloadable in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. To obtain the latest version click here.