Mar 27, 2024 | Community Lens, Front Page, Publications, Reports
The April 2024 Community Data Watch focuses on the geographic distribution pattern of renter households and shelter costs (average rent) at the neighbourhood level. This publication identifies areas with high concentrations of renter households to pinpoint locations...
Mar 19, 2024 | Front Page, Publications, Reports, Social Planning
In Halton, the older adult population is projected to reach 294,000 in the next 24 years (2022-2046)…older adults will represent 29.2% of the total population. In issue six of Community Development Halton’s Our Halton series, the focus is on older...
Mar 5, 2024 | Community Lens, Front Page, Reports, Social Planning, Uncategorized
Women represent slightly over half (51.1%) of the total population in Canada. IN Halton between 2001 and 2021, the women’s population has increased by 59% to over 300,000 people. The growth rate has been largely driven by the population of racialized women which...
Feb 21, 2024 | Front Page, Publications, Reports
In issue five of the 2023 Our Halton series, the focus is on diversity. Diversity is about the individual. It is about the variety of unique dimensions, qualities, and characteristics we all possess, and the mix that occurs in any group of people. Race, ethnicity,...
Feb 6, 2024 | Community Lens, Reports, Social Planning, Uncategorized
Recently, international students in Canada are receiving noticeably more media coverage relating to immigration policies, current housing crises, cost of living, tuition fees and international student frauds. Using data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship...
Jan 30, 2024 | Front Page, Media Releases
In advance of the 2024 Provincial budget, Volunteer Halton endorses the Ontario Nonprofit Network’s pre-budget submission to invest and unleash the sector’s full potential to serve Ontarians. In this submission, we expand on their recommendations to reinforce the...