Hunger Report 2021

While homeowners only represent less than six percent of those accessing food banks, and this change is likely due to the financial impact of the pandemic, this is an -16% important demographic to watch as it could be indicative of a broader decrease in the trend related to the hollowing out proportion of of the middle class. [...] This is outlined means is that, in addition to the under Article 25 of the United availability and accessibility of Nations’ Universal Declaration food, Canada’s governments have of Human Rights, which states: the legal responsibility to create “Everyone has the right to a the economic conditions in which standard of living adequate for the everyone is able to access the health and well-being of h. [...] and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event In Ontario, access to sufficient of unemployment, sickness, and income is the largest barrier that disability.”5 people living with food insecurity face in realizing their right to food. [...] According to the Office of In evaluating the data collected by the High Commissioner for Human the provincial food bank network, Rights (UN Human Rights), the the largest economic barriers to right to food can only be realized the right to food in Ontario are as when everyone has physical and follows. [...] As of 2019, Ontario had the highest proportion of minimum wage 16 FEED ONTARIO HUNGER REPORT 2021 A Lack of Affordable and This is further reflected in the social Supportive Housing housing waitlists that exist in every municipality in Ontario, ranging In a recent survey of food from hundreds to tens of thousands bank visitors, two out of three of people.