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New Report Reveals Almost 500,000 Ontarians Needed a Food Bank Last Year Due to Rising Cost of Housing and Insufficient Social Assistance Rates

TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) released its 2017 Hunger Report today which reveals that 499,415 individuals – one third of them children – turned to a food bank last year alone. The report also found that over 90 per cent of food bank clients are rental or social housing tenants who are spending more than 70 per cent of their income on housing. The 2017 Hunger Report highlights the federal government’s recently announced housing strategy and how the OAFB hopes it will affect those accessing food banks over the next ten years.

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