Poverty Reduction & Elimination

Poverty elimination is foundational to healthy and caring community where everyone has an opportunity to participate in community life.

In the last decade, the SPRC has been a key member of many of Hamilton’s anti-poverty initiatives, including the Income Security Working Group, the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, and 25 in 5 Hamilton, now called Hamilton Organizing for Poverty Elimination (HOPE). The SPRC has focused its efforts on two main strategies: research and analysis about conditions of poverty in Hamilton; and community organizing and education for action, engaging a diverse range of groups and individuals in the community with an interest in eliminating poverty.

Publications Relating To Priority Area

• Don’t Stop Now! Progress in Poverty Reduction: Analysis from Hamilton and Ontario, 1996-2016 (June 2019)
• Hamilton’s Social Landscape Bulletins: Poverty and Persistence (April 2017)
• Give Us A Chance to Succeed: Voices from the Margins – The report of the April 2016 Hamilton Social Audit (February 2017)
• Hamilton’s Social Landscape Bulletins: Demographic Shifts (September 2016)
• Money for Nothing, Debt for Free: Is the payday loan industry cashing in on Hamilton’s rise in precarious employment? (February 2016)
• The St. Leonard’s Society of Hamilton Report to the Community 2016 (January 2016)
• Canada Votes – 2015 Federal Election Bulletins (September 2015)
• The Canadian Learning Bond in Hamilton: A Pilot Project Report (June 2015)
• Profile of North Hamilton (April 2015)
• WHPC Emergency Planning for Services for Single Women Experiencing Homelessness (February 2015)
• YWCA Hamilton Financial Literacy Program Evaluation (January 2015)
• Hamilton’s Vital Signs – Hamilton’s Economic Renaissance: A prosperity unevenly shared (January 2015)
• St. Leonard’s Society of Hamilton Program Evaluation (July 2014)
• The Bridge: From Prison to Community (April 2014)
• Neighbour 2 Neighbour Building Better Futures Project Evaluation (April 2014)
• The Rich and the Rest of Us (October 2013)
• Hamilton Housing and Homelessness Action Plan (October 2013)
• Hamilton Social Landscape Bulletin: Recession Impacts – Youth (April 2013)
• Hamilton Social Landscape Bulletin: Recession Impacts – Employment (February 2013)
• Hamilton Social Landscape Bulletin: Recession Impacts – Unemployment (January 2013)
• Action on Poverty Profile (November 2012)
• Hamilton Social Landscape Bulletin: Trends in Basic Needs (May 2012)
• Working and Still Poor? It Doesn’t Add Up! Why Living Wage is Coming to Hamilton (December 2011)
• Calculating a Living Wage for Hamilton Companion report to Working and Still Poor? It Doesn’t Add Up! (December 2011)
• Profile of Vulnerable Seniors in Hamilton (September 2011)
• Supporting Laid Off Workers in Hamilton: The Value of Employment Training at the Hamilton Jobs Action Centre (May 2011)
• Women & Poverty in Hamilton (May 2010)
• Incomes and Poverty in Hamilton (April 2009)
• Report on the Immigrant Skills Workforce Integration Project: A Plan for Hamilton (July 2006)
• Women and Poverty in Hamilton (May 2006)