Food Bank Usage in Inner Suburbs

[TheTigerMaster]

Very concerning post from Torontoist:

For the fifth year in a row, GTA food banks have had over one million visits. But different areas are seeing different trends.

In Toronto’s city core between April 2012 and March 2013, the report says, food banks saw about the same number of visits they did in 2008. Effectively, demand for food has fallen to pre-recession levels.

But it’s a different story in the city’s inner suburbs, where food bank visits during that same period of time still exceeded 2008 levels by 38 per cent.

Source: Torontoist

 

[christiesplits]

Thanks TTM. Some supplementary info from U of T's Centre for Urban & Community Studies looking at the "Three Cities within Toronto." Provides a bit more historical context than the Daily Bread Food Bank report.

http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/researchbulletins/CUCSRB41_Hulchanski_Three_Cities_Toronto.pdf

 

[Condo Madness]

There are a lot of people who had either no raises or very low raises for years now. This is having an effect on the rest of the region.