Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty
Declining Income, Housing Quality and Community Life in Toronto’s Inner Suburban High-Rise Apartments
Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty presents new data about the growing concentration of poverty in the City of Toronto and the role that high-rise housing is playing in this trend, while building upon the findings from Poverty By Postal Code, which looked at the spatial concentration of family poverty in Toronto over the past two decades.
Read the report and executive summary:
You can also visit web pages dedicated to the report and read the media release:
This new report tracks the continued growth in the spatial concentration of poverty in Toronto neighbourhoods, and in high-rise buildings within neighbourhoods. It then examines the quality of life that high-rise buildings are providing to tenants today. Its primary focus is on privately owned housing stock in Toronto’s inner suburbs.
Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty is the newest release following other United Way Toronto reports:
