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As you know, TWCA has been working on inclusionary zoning for a long time!  After finally coming up at the Planning & Growth Management Committee, a recommendation on the province's Bill 73 was sent to City Council for its June...

Toronto Women's City Alliance was pleased to be a national partner in a working group that came together to create a new national guide for advancing equitable municipal policy in Canadian cities.   For the past year, organizations and municipalities from across...

We continue to hear more and more every day about the ever-increasing cost of housing in Toronto.  Yet, we still hear precious little about measures to make housing more affordable and accessible.   The City's Planning and Growth Committee recently voted to...

Things just got a bit worse for women. In the wake of a new UN report lamenting women’s lack of access to economic opportunity and the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, Toronto’s leadership decided to compound the problem in...

In April 2014, Toronto City Council requested City staff to develop a City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy.  Since then, TWCA has been working with the City to include the voices of women living in poverty in the strategy.  We...