An ambitious plan to end poverty in a generation, with more than 100 recommendations on how to do it, is to be released Thursday in London.

The mayor’s advisory panel on poverty has called on the city, provincial and federal governments, as well as anti-poverty agencies, to make changes in transit, housing, mental health and addiction, employment, child care, and education, sources say.

The report is not to be made public until 11 a.m., but sources have told The Free Press the short-term recommendations include:

Make a pitch to the province that London become a guaranteed income pilot site.

Establish a living wage for London and encourage employers to adopt it.

Spend more on housing allowances to help people keep their residences.

Reduce transit fares for low income earners, and let children under 12 ride for free.

The panel makes dozens of other long-term recommendations that range from expanding existing programs and adding new ones to much stronger advocacy for changes in provincial and federal government policy and practice.

Many of the recommendations were included in a draft report released in February after consultations with community groups.

“Poverty can be solved. That is absolutely crucial to recognize,” panel co-chair Chris Mackie, medical officer of health for the Middlesex-London health unit, said Wednesday.

“What are you going to see tomorrow is a community plan. It is developed by the community for the community.”

It’s also going to be up to the community to see the recommendations through, he said.

“If our community doesn’t pick up the baton from here, we won’t solve poverty.”

But even before the report has been released, questions about its implementation are being raised.

London Community Advocates Network recommended the panel’s report include an implementation plan, said Jacqueline Thompson, executive director of LifeSpin.

It’s unclear if the final report outlines how the recommendations will be implemented.

London Mayor Matt Brown announced the creation of the poverty panel in September, with a six-month deadline to develop recommendations.

The panel

Chris Mackie, medical officer of health, Middlesex-London Health Unit

Coun. Maureen Cassidy

Glen Pearson, food bank director

Andrew Lockie, executive director, United Way

Abe Oudshoorn, London Homeless Coalition

Vanessa Ambtman-Smith, Aboriginal health lead, LHIN

Dharshi Lacey, professor, non-profit sector

Helene Berman, Arthur Labatt school of nursing, Western University

The numbers

12.7 per cent of London-Middlesex households (37,000 people) on social assistance in June 2014, up 9.6 per cent, or about 10,000 people, from 2006.

962 more children on caseload than in 2006.

24 per cent of youth and children in London in 2012 lived in low-income households, compared with 20 per cent provincially.

17 per cent of London households low income in 2012, compared to 15 per cent provincially.