The Proliferation of Charitable Meal Programs in Toronto

Valerie Tarasuk and Naomi Dachner

Canadian Public Policy, 2009, vol. 35, issue 4, 433-450

Abstract: In the absence of effective federal or provincial policies to address homelessness, community groups have initiated numerous programs to help people meet subsistence needs. In 2004, we undertook a study of food-provisioning efforts in Toronto, documenting 490 programs serving as many as 128,000 meals and snacks per week to homeless and housed individuals. Many programs struggled to manage demand. Program operators maintained that they were feeding people who otherwise would not eat, yet the assistance provided was limited, intermittent, and uncoordinated. The needs that underlie demands for food assistance reflect serious flaws in our current system of income assistance.

Date: 2009
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