The problem
Chronic poverty and its
generational impact
Many Torontonians struggle to break the cycle of poverty due to systemic barriers and an outdated social safety net. Rising costs, lack of affordable housing, and limited job opportunities exacerbate these challenges.
YSM is committed to ending chronic poverty in our city in one generation. Since 2016, we’ve been working toward this goal through strategic planning and community engagement.
Won’t you join us to help make it possible?
Food for thought
Close your eyes.
Take a moment and bring to mind a person, place or thing that helped to mould you into who you are today. What or who do you see? Where are you? Who is there with you?
For most of us, our personal journey involves the right combination of people, support networks and opportunities presented to us in moments and ways that worked to propel our lives forward and help form our future.
Now imagine if those people, places or things hadn’t been there. How would your story look instead? Consider how your story would change if your family’s economic circumstances forced you to choose between the things you wanted and the things you needed, just to survive. Or, if your family immigrated to a country where you had to learn a new language and build a support network from scratch. What if a traumatic life event got in the way of your plans and forced your whole world and outlook to change in an instant?
Where would you be today?
