Month: March 2026

The Slaight Family Foundation’s transformational gift allows MAP and the United Way Greater Toronto to launch the Slaight Family Housing Lab that will use an evidence-based approach to move people off the streets and into supportive housing. Dr. Stephen Hwang, MAP director and scientist, spoke with The Canadian Press about the launch.

“If we’re going to invest more funds, we need to invest them in long-term solutions, not in short-term Band-Aids,” he said. “That’s why this ($25 million) gift is so wonderful because it’s doing both of those things. It’s addressing urgent needs but it’s also creating long-term solutions.”

The newly created Slaight Family Housing Lab will pair MAP’s research on health equity and homelessness with the United Way’s role in funding community organizations that work with people surviving on Toronto’s streets, in encampments and beyond.

MAP director and scientist Dr. Stephen Hwang spoke with the Toronto Star about how the new funding will help create new front-line teams, including case managers, peer workers, social workers and other medical professionals. Those teams will go out onto the streets and work on connecting people outside with health care, social supports and eventually housing.