| 143409 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | — | N | — | 2024-2025 Annual Progress Report - HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan and Housing Action Plan (2022-2026) | 2025.PH25.4 | — | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>The Executive Director, Housing Secretariat recommends that: </p>
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<p><em>Intergovernmental Requests for Successful Delivery of the City's Housing Plans</em></p>
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<p>1. City Council request the Government of Canada, through Build Canada Homes and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation programs, to provide the City of Toronto:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. $163 million in capital funding to support the creation of approximately 230 supportive homes on public land in the next 12-18 months.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. $2.6 billion in funding and low-cost financing, though a portfolio-based and predictable multi-year approach, to support the creation of mixed-income communities on public land to start construction on approximately 3,900 purpose-built rental and affordable rental homes within the next 12-18 months.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">c. $150 million in funding under the Canada Rental Protection Fund, to be stacked with the City’s investments through the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition Program, to support the community housing sector in acquiring and preserving approximately 1,000 at-risk rental homes.</p>
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<p>2. City Council re-iterate its request that the Government of Ontario maintain its commitment to partner with the City of Toronto to create new supportive homes for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, by:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. Renewing current annual investments of $48 million for another three years (2026-2029) to ensure ongoing stability of housing and supports in over 3,000 occupied supportive homes;</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. Providing an additional investment of $16 million in 2026, and $23 million in 2027 and annually thereafter for housing benefits and wrap-around housing and social supports for over 730 new supportive homes funded and under construction, to open between 2025 and 2027; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">c. Providing sufficient operating funding for any net new supportive homes created under Build Canada Homes.</p>
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<p><em>Property Tax Exemptions for Indigenous-Led Housing Provider</em></p>
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<p>3. City Council authorize an exemption from taxation for municipal and school purposes for the affordable rental homes and affordable transitional homes as listed and for the periods of time described in Table 1 in the Financial Impact section of this report from the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat.</p>
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<p>4. City Council authorize the Controller and Chief Accountant to cancel or refund any taxes paid after the effective date of the exemption from taxation for municipal and school purposes as set out in the applicable municipal housing facility agreement.</p>
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<p><em>Rental Housing Supply Program Set-Aside for Indigenous Housing Providers</em></p>
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<p>5. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with Miziwe Biik Development Corporation to:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. issue a rolling Call for Applications for the Indigenous set-aside funding allocations under the Rental Housing Supply Program and repayable loan allocations under the Community Housing Pre-Development Fund to identify eligible projects; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. approve eligible projects within the approved budget for Indigenous set-aside funding and repayable loan allocation, and report to City Council with the list of approved projects on an annual basis.</p>
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<p>6. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with Miziwe Biik Development Corporation and Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle, to implement changes to Rental Housing Supply Program, Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition Program, and Community Housing Pre-Development Fund where needed to stack City financial support with federal and provincial funding provided to Indigenous-led and/or Indigenous-serving organizations within approved and available Indigenous set-aside funding allocations for development and acquisition of affordable housing, and report on the program changes to City Council as needed.</p>
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<p><em>Memorandum of Understanding and Funding Agreement with United Way Greater Toronto</em></p>
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<p>7. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and Executive Director, Social Development, to negotiate and enter into, on behalf of the City of Toronto, a Memorandum of Understanding and funding agreement with United Way Greater Toronto to provide one-time funding in the amount of up to $50,000, included in the Housing Secretariat’s 2025 Operating Budget, to support actions and initiatives to incubate a Black-focused non-profit housing organization, on terms and conditions outlined in Attachment 4, or other terms and conditions as satisfactory to the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and Executive Director, Social Development, in a form approved by the City Solicitor.</p>
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<p><em>Authorization to Collect and Share Personal Information through the Shelter Management Information System</em></p>
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<p>8. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in collaboration with the General Manager, Toronto Shelter and Support Services to collect personal demographic information, housing and shelter history, service interactions, consent status of clients, through the Shelter Management Information System (SMIS), designated as the City’s Homelessness Management Information System, for the purposes of supporting the City’s efforts in delivering responsive, coordinated, and client-centered housing and homelessness services.</p>
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<p>9. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and the General Manager, Toronto Shelter and Support Services to collect, use, and disclose personal information through the Shelter Management Information System (SMIS), the City’s designated Homelessness Management Information System, strictly for the following purposes:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. Facilitating coordinated housing and homelessness service delivery;</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. Enabling timely and appropriate housing and support service referrals;</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">c. Ensuring compliance with federal and provincial reporting obligations; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">d. Supporting evidence-based program planning, evaluation, performance; measurement, in a manner this compliant with the applicable privacy legislation, data governance standards, and client consent protocols.</p> | <p><strong>Delivery of the HousingTO Plan</strong></p>
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<p>City Council adopted an increase to the HousingTO Plan’s housing approval targets and associated costing in November 2023 through <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.EX9.3">EX.9.3</a>. This report highlighted the urgent need for increased federal and provincial action and investment to increase new purpose-built rental supply, with a focus on affordable rental homes.</p>
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<p>As outlined in EX9.3, successful implementation of the HousingTO Plan is estimated to cost all three orders of government approximately $44.4 to $47 billion. This includes $31.6 to $33 billion in contributions and funding and $12.8 to $14.0 billion in repayable loans and financing.</p>
<p><br />Since the HousingTO Plan launched in 2020, the City’s investment has substantially exceeded other orders of governments’ contributions. The breakdown of commitments to date as well as outstanding investments are as follows:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- <strong>City of Toronto</strong> - Approximately $6.4 billion committed to date. Approximately $4.1 to $4.6 billion in funding outstanding;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- <strong>Federal government </strong>- Approximately $4.0 billion committed to-date ($3.0 billion in funding and $1.0 billion in financing). Approximately $7.5 to $8 billion in funding and $5.4 to $6.0 billion in financing outstanding; and</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- <strong>Provincial government</strong>- Approximately $1.9 billion committed to date. Approximately $8.7 to $9.1 billion in funding and $6.4 to $7.0 billion in financing outstanding.</p>
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<p>In 2024, the federal and provincial governments made investments towards key HousingTO targets and priorities including:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- $67.2 million in funding from the provincial Building Faster Fund (BFF) awarded to Toronto <a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006011/ontario-rewards-toronto-with-672-million-through-the-building-faster-fund">in June</a> 2025. This was provided in recognition that in 2024, the City reached 88% of its 2024 housing target, demonstrating the City’s work towards its pledge to the province to start construction on 285,000 new homes by 2031. In 2024, the City received $114 million in funding through BFF as it exceeded its 2023 housing target.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- The City continued to deliver on its commitments under the $471 million Housing Accelerator Fund agreement (HAF) to facilitate the creation of approximately 60,980 net new permitted residential homes from 2024-2026. To date, the City has received $235.6 million, or 50%, of the total program funding from the federal government to support efforts to increase the supply of new homes.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;">- Funding from the BFF and HAF supports a number of initiatives that are expediting delivery of the HousingTO Plan and Housing Action Plan, including the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition and Rental Housing Supply Programs, which aim to protect existing supply of homes and increase net new homes delivered on City, private and non-profit lands.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- $2.55 billion in low-cost financing from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation was unlocked for a portfolio of rental housing projects delivering 4,831 rental homes, including at least 1,075 affordable homes. This was secured under a landmark agreement in principle between the City and federal government in <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-and-government-of-canada-enter-2-55-billion-landmark-agreement-in-principle-to-build-more-rental-homes-faster/">March 2025</a> as part of a larger $7.3 billion financing portfolio for rental housing in Toronto.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- The City also received the first $200 million installment (of $600 million total) in funding for shelters and homelessness operating support under the Ontario-Toronto New Deal Agreement.</p>
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<p><strong>Ongoing Funding Pressures to Deliver HousingTO Targets</strong></p>
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<p>As the City continues to leverage public investments to build new rental homes, the need for additional rental subsidies and funding for wrap-around supportive services to help people exit homelessness into permanent and stable homes continues.</p>
<p><br />While the Province has provided $48 million annually towards operating funding for supportive housing under the Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP) for 2023-26, the City does not yet have confirmation for the extension of these critical funds beyond 2026.</p>
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<p>The City anticipates adding over 730 supportive homes in 2025 through to 2027, which will create a net new pressure of $23 million by 2027 and annually thereafter, for wrap-around support services for over 4,000 supportive homes. This pressure will continue to grow as the City's supportive stock continues to increase.</p>
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<p>Increased social assistance rates, additional investments in mental health and addictions services, enhanced resources for community and primary health care providers, and new and sustainable funding to ensure availability of appropriate harm reduction and overdose prevention services are critical to complement investments in housing solutions.</p>
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<p>Increased capital and operating investments are particularly important for the City to make meaningful progress in meeting the following targets that are currently lagging:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Creating new affordable, adequate and safe homes to address continued disparity in housing outcomes for Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities, as well as for women and gender diverse people;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />- Increasing the supply of supportive homes for people experiencing homelessness to relieve the pressure on shelters, encampments, and hospitals;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />- Assisting low-income households with housing benefits to ensure they can exit homelessness and remain housed, particularly by increasing the City’s annual allocation under the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB);</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />- Investing in acquisition, repairs, accessibility modifications, energy efficiency and resiliency of existing homes to ensure the existing supply of homes, including non-profit and co-operative, remain safe and functional for current and future residents and support aging in place; and,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />- Investing in long-term care facilities provided by the City and non-profit organizations to address the growing need of our senior population.</p>
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<p><strong>Proposed Property Tax Exemptions for Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society</strong></p>
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<p>This report recommends an exemption from property taxes for municipal and school purposes for three buildings currently operated as, or intended to be operated as, affordable housing for Indigenous women by Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society (TWHLS). TWHLS is an Indigenous-led housing provider that provides community-based, culturally appropriate services and housing for First Nation (Status and Non-Status), Inuit, and Métis 2SLGBTQIA+ women exiting correctional institutions, and survivors of intergenerational trauma.</p>
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<p>TWHLS requires property tax exemptions for three affordable rental housing, transitional housing, and/or residential Healing Lodge properties:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- 209 Carlton Street was approved for financial incentives under the Affordable Rental and Rent-Controlled Incentives stream of the RHSP in Q3 2025, with construction expected to begin in Q4 2025. Property tax exemptions for the four affordable rental homes and ancillary space require Council authority. Financial support for the property acquisition and renovation have been provided by the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Incorporated (NICHI), the Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle (ALFDC), and Miziwe Biik Development Corporation (MBDC).</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- 28 Algoma Street was acquired by TWHLS and is being renovated in Q4 2025 with financial support from NICHI in order to create four affordable rental homes. The City’s MURA Program allows for property tax exemptions to be provided (subject to Council approval) where not-for-profit and Indigenous housing providers are able to purchase properties using non-City acquisition programs (such as NICHI funding), subject to the acquisition meeting the eligibility criteria under MURA and the not-for-profit and Indigenous housing providers agree to enter into a Contribution Agreement with the City.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- 161 Spadina Road is a provincially-owned detached property sub-leased by the City to TWLHS in 2022 for renovation as a culturally appropriate residential Healing Lodge and was approved for a property tax exemption by City Council at that time. With financial support from ALFDC, a garden suite has since been added to provide ancillary space for THWLS to provide wrap-around support services to residents of the building. A property tax exemption is recommended for the garden suite to support the ongoing affordability of the affordable homes.</p>
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<p>Property tax exemptions are recommended for the terms of the agreements (from 17 years to 40 years), with an estimated Net Present Value (NPV) of $680,864. Ongoing municipal property tax exemption is conditional on compliance with the terms and conditions of the City's Contribution Agreement over the term of the agreement.</p>
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<p>Table 1: Summary of Recommended Property Tax Exemptions to Support Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">NPV of City Building Levy</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">28 Algoma Street (includes 4 affordable rental homes)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">3 – Etobicoke Lakeshore</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">40</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$208,890</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$35,795</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$2,278</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right: -12.9pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$246,962</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">161 Spadina Road – garden suite*</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">11 – University-Rosedale</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">17</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$24,920</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$5,373</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$325</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right: -12.9pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$30,618</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">209 Carlton Street (includes 4 affordable rental homes)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">13 – Toronto Centre</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">40</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$342,324</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">$57,286</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$3,673</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right: -12.9pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">$403,283</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Total Net Present Value:</span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">$576,134</span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">$98,454</span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">$6,276</span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 107%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">$680,864</span></strong></p>
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<p><em>*TWHLS entered into a 20-year sublease with the City for the main property located at 161 Spadina Road in 2022. Since entering into the sublease, a garden suite was constructed on the property, which now requires a property tax exemption. The main property was previously approved for a property tax exemption for a 20-year period in 2022 through MM39.30. TWHLS currently has 17 years remaining on its sublease with the City for this site.</em></p>
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<p><em>Rental Housing Supply Program Set-Aside for Indigenous Housing Providers</em></p>
<p><br />This report outlines the result of engagement with ALFDC and MBDC in implementing <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.PH23.5">Council direction</a> to co-develop a process to allocate $10 million in Capital funding and $3 million in Community Housing Pre-Development Fund (CHPF) loan funding to Indigenous housing providers. This funding was set-aside to support progress toward approving 5,200 “for Indigenous, by Indigenous” affordable and supportive homes by 2030. However, no applications from Indigenous housing providers were received through the last call for applications. Funding to be allocated is available within the Housing Secretariat’s 2025-2034 Capital Budget and Plan.</p>
<p><br /><em>Independent Midpoint Review of the City’s Progress in Advancing the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing</em></p>
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<p>This report references work the City will undertake with an independent consultant to conduct the Council-directed independent evaluation of the City’s progress in advancing the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing, at the midpoint of implementing the HousingTO Plan. The cost associated with this review will be included in the 2026 Operating Budget submission for the Housing Secretariat.</p>
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<p><em>Memorandum of Understanding/Funding Agreement to Incubate a Black-Focused Non-Profit Housing Organization</em></p>
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<p>This report recommends an allocation of up to $50,000 in one-time City funding to United Way Greater Toronto to support an initiative to incubate a Black-focused non-profit housing organization, to be delivered through a Memorandum of Understanding and funding agreement. This funding would support advancement of baseline activities and carrying out capacity building activities required to incubate a new housing organization focused on serving Black residents. This recommendation has no net new financial impact to the City, as this funding is available within the Housing Secretariat’s 2025 Operating Budget.</p>
<p><br />The Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer has reviewed this report and agrees with the financial impact information.</p> | <p>Toronto continues to face ongoing housing and homelessness crises that have been decades in the making and are increasingly impacting residents across the entire housing continuum. Adopted in 2019, the City’s HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan (HousingTO Plan) is Toronto’s strategy to respond to the challenges in the housing system. Guided by this plan, the City has continued to demonstrate strong leadership in making major investments (including land, financial incentives, and funding), implementing transformational housing programs and policies, taking action to support renters, and ensuring the City as an organization has the structure and processes to respond rapidly to the housing crisis.</p>
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<p>This report and Attachment 1 provide an overview of progress made under the HousingTO Plan, and the 2022-2026 Housing Action Plan (HAP), in 2024 and into 2025 to address the housing needs of Torontonians across five key areas:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Creating new homes</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Protecting and preserving existing homes</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Supporting renters and improving housing stability</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Responding to diverse housing needs</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Transforming housing policies and permissions</p>
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<p>The housing market across Canada, including Toronto, has faced a significant downturn that has persisted into 2025, negatively impacting the supply of new homes. On its own, the market will not create the new rental homes, particularly affordable and rent-geared-to-income homes, that residents need. The City is demonstrating the impact of government action on housing, as City-led and City-supported projects account for 65% of all housing starts achieved in the first eight months of 2025 in Toronto. Action from all orders of government continues to be needed to build new homes, maintain economic resiliency, and support the substantial number of workers employed in the construction sector.</p>
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<p>The Annual Progress Report also identifies priority actions underway in 2025 and into 2026, including supporting renters by implementing a new Rental Renovation Licence Bylaw, establishing and implementing the Toronto Builds Policy Framework as a consistent and clear policy framework for the delivery of new homes on public land with the new Housing Development Office as the organizational lead, maximizing City investments in housing development and acquisition projects led by the private and non-profit sector; and co-designing new programs to support Indigenous-led housing developments.</p>
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<p>To further advance the HousingTO Plan, this report also seeks authority to advance a number of critical partnerships and initiatives to improve housing outcomes for Indigenous, Black and racialized communities, including: </p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Authorities to advance a co-led implementation process with Miziwe Biik Development Corporation and Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle to more efficiently allocate $13 million in pre-approved grant and loan funding to Indigenous housing projects under the Rental Housing Supply Program and approve property tax exemptions for three Indigenous-led housing sites.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Authority to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding and funding agreement with United Way Greater Toronto to support work to incubate a Black-focused non-profit housing organization.</p>
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<p>While action has been significant, the need for greater intergovernmental partnership and investment is clear. Toronto cannot address the housing and homelessness crises alone. Supportive housing continues to be the most cost effective and dignified response to ending homelessness, with annual operating costs about half of those of shelter programs. Sustained action and investment from provincial and federal governments continues to be necessary to reverse course on a generational disinvestment in the housing system and build more affordable homes, protect existing supply, and support renters and those experiencing homelessness, both today and in the future.</p>
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<p>The report also includes recommendations relating to collecting and sharing personal information through the Shelter Information Management System (SMIS), to support service delivery and evidence-based planning across the housing continuum.</p>
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<p>The 2024-2025 Housing Progress Report is prepared by the Housing Secretariat with input from various City Divisions, Agencies, and Corporations including: City Planning, CreateTO, Development Review, Environment Climate and Forestry, the Housing Development Office, Financial Planning, the Indigenous Affairs Office, Strategic Partnerships, Municipal Licensing and Standards, Seniors Services and Long-Term Care, Toronto Shelter and Support Services, Social Development, Strategic Public and Employee Communications, Toronto Building, Toronto Community Housing Corporation, and Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation.</p> | 25 | 4 | CMMTTEE | PH | All | N | 1762923600000 | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | — | — | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | Decision information not found | false | Adopted | — | … | … | … | … | — | — | — | — |