Paper Summary:

This paper presents a brief on the issue of urban poverty in, Toronto, Canada's largest city. Specifically, the paper argues that poverty must be addressed quickly - both through an improved remedial education system and via an improved social welfare safety net that distributes monies more efficiently. The paper explores the matter within an international context and suggests that urban poverty is a problem Toronto can overcome, even if other cities have faltered in combating it.

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Issue
Analysis
Recommendations

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"Thirdly, the city of Toronto has no justification for not turning its many brown fields into sites whereupon affordable apartment complexes for low-income individuals can be built. This would be an effective use of available land, would allow the city to make a profit, and would reduce the strain upon the city's over-burdened social welfare and shelter programs. Of all of the recommendations outlined above, giving the less-fortunate the tools they need to fend for themselves is the most productive measure the city can enact if only one option is available."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (2004, March 10). No way home. CBC: The Fifth Estate. Retrieved November 26, 2006, from <http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_nowayhome_cost.html>
• Hajnal, Zoltan L. (n.d.). The nature of concentrated urban poverty in Canada and the United States. CJS Online. Retrieved November 26, 2006, from <http://www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/articles/hajnal.html>
• Hou, F. (2003). Neighborhood low-income, income inequality and health in Toronto. Statistics Canada, Canadian Center for Health Information, 14(2): 21-34.
• Hughes, Colin. (2000). Report card on child poverty in Toronto. Toronto Campaign 2000. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 364932).
• Mitlin, Diana. (2005). Understanding chronic poverty in urban areas. International Planning Studies, 10(1): 3-19.

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