Civic hacknight #153 with Scott Leon: Healthy Budget Builder

Presenter: Scott Leon, researcher and policy professional at the Wellesley Institute

Scott will be presenting on the Healthy Budget Builder TO, which is an interactive website that allows users to ‘build their own’ City of Toronto budget. Users get to decide which programs to fund, and how to raise the money required to pay for them. Its purpose is to evidence and information to help contribute to a more informed a conversation on the City of Toronto budget.

https://healthybudgetbuilderto.ca/

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@ScottLeonTO @WellesleyWI

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Scott Leon is a researcher with the Wellesley Institute and the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership at the University of Toronto. His work focuses primarily on affordable housing and healthy public budgeting.

*** THIS MONTH'S VENUE SPONSOR:

Sidewalk Labs

https://sidewalktoronto.ca/

Sidewalk Labs is an Alphabet company that imagines, designs, tests, and builds urban innovations to help cities meet their biggest challenges. They are designing a district in Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront to tackle the challenges of urban growth, working in partnership with the tri-government agency Waterfront Toronto and the local community. This joint effort, called Sidewalk Toronto, aims to make Toronto the global hub for urban innovation.

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*** ABOUT US:

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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Hope to see you Tuesday!