| 136619 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | — | N | — | 2023-2024 Annual Progress Update Report - HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan and Housing Action Plan (2022-2026) | 2024.PH15.5 | — | 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 re-iterate its requests to the Government of Ontario to urgently support delivery of the 65,000 new rent-controlled homes target by partnering with the Federal Government on their Canada Builds program and the City of Toronto to launch an Ontario Builds housing program and:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. allocate between $3.2 billion and $4.8 billion in outstanding capital funding by 2030; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. allocate between $6.4 billion and $7 billion in low-cost financing/re-payable loans by 2030. </p>
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<p>2. City Council re-iterate its requests to the Government of Canada to urgently support delivery of the 65,000 new rent-controlled homes target by launching the Canada Builds program in partnership with the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto to:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. allocate between $3.6 to $5.2 billion in outstanding capital and operating funding by 2030; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. allocate between $6.4 to $7 billion in low-cost financing/re-payable loans by 2030. </p>
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<p>3. City Council re-iterate its request to the Government of Ontario to expand on its recent 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; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. providing an additional investment of $12 million in 2025 and annually thereafter for housing benefits and wrap around housing and social supports for over 300 new supportive homes funded and under construction in 2024.</p>
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<p>4. City Council re-iterate its request to the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario to ensure Toronto’s Year 5 Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit allocation is $54 million, to enable at least 300 households per month to move out of homelessness into permanent housing and relieve pressure on the City's emergency shelter system.</p>
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<p><em>Donation from United Way of Greater Toronto to Supportive Housing Project at 90 Dunn Avenue (formerly 150 Dunn Avenue): </em></p>
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<p>5. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat to accept a donation of up to $120,000 from United Way of Greater Toronto for the City of Toronto, as financial contribution to the supportive housing project at 90 Dunn Avenue and in compliance with the Donations to the City of Toronto for Community Benefits Policy.</p>
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<p>6. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to negotiate and sign on behalf of the City a donor agreement with United Way of Greater Toronto, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.</p>
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<p>7. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, or their designate, to allocate and disburse the donated amount to the 90 Dunn Avenue project. </p>
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<p><em>Memorandum of Understanding with Parc Downsview Park Incorporated</em></p>
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<p>8. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, to negotiate and enter into, on behalf of the City of Toronto, a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Parc Downsview Park Incorporated, a subsidiary of Canada Lands Company Limited, or a related entity, substantially on the major terms and conditions set out in Attachment 4 to the report and on such other or amended terms and conditions acceptable to the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.</p>
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<p>9. City Council exempt up to 2,560 affordable rental housing units, to be constructed on lands owned by Parc Downsview Park Incorporated, or a related entity, within the Downsview Secondary Plan area, from the payment of development charges, parkland dedication fees, community benefits charges, if not exempted by provincial legislation, and planning application and building permit fees.</p>
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<p>10. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, to negotiate and enter into, on behalf of the City, any agreements or documents necessary including municipal housing facility agreements, with Parc Downsview Park Inc., a subsidiary of Canada Lands Company Limited, or related entities, to secure the financial assistance for the affordable housing to be developed on lands owned by Parc Downsview Park in the Downsview Secondary Plan area, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, and in a form approved by the City Solicitor.</p>
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<p><em>Activating Provincial Funding through Building Faster Fund for Housing Solutions</em></p>
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<p>11. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to adjust the 2024/2025 approved Capital and Operating Plans for Housing Secretariat by $114,000,000 fully funded through the Building Faster Fund, with future year requests subject to Council approval through the annual budget process.</p>
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<p>12. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, to prepare and submit the City of Toronto's Investment Plans, plan updates, and year-end reports for the Building Faster Fund, in accordance with program requirements, and to enter into a Transfer Payment Agreement and/or related agreement(s) with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing or any other provincial entity necessary for the receipt and expenditure of funding under the Building Faster Fund on such terms and conditions as are satisfactory to the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, and in a form approved by the City Solicitor.</p>
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<p>13. City Council approve the receipt of Building Faster Fund program funds in 2024 and on an ongoing basis for housing-related projects and activities, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Transfer Payment Agreement, approved Investment Plan, and any related agreements, directives or program guidelines.</p>
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<p>14. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to undertake the Building Faster Fund program administration in accordance with the approved allocations, the Transfer Payment Agreement and the approved Investment Plan, including appropriate measures as the program proceeds to adjust program parameter, recipients, and funding among program expenditure categories as required to ensure full and effective use of available provincial funds.</p>
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<p>15. City Council authorize the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, to enter into agreements or other suitable arrangements with the provincial government, other City divisions, community agencies, private entities and/or individuals to deliver the Building Faster Fund in accordance with the terms and conditions of the program guidelines on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat in consultation with Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services, and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.</p> | <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Delivery of the HousingTO Plan </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In November 2023, through <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.EX9.3">EX9.3</a>, the City adopted an increase to the HousingTO Plan’s housing approval targets and the costing associated with these increased housing targets. This report highlighted the urgent need for increased federal and provincial actions to increase purpose-built rental housing supply, with a focus on affordable rental homes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As outlined in EX9.3, the 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 contribution and funding and $12.8 to $14 billion in repayable loans and financing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since the launch of the HousingTO Plan, all orders of government have made contributions towards its delivery. The breakdown of commitments to-date as well as outstanding investments are as follows: </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>City of Toronto -</strong> Approximately $7.5 billion committed to-date. Approximately $3 to $3.5 billion in funding outstanding;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Federal government -</strong> Approximately $2.9 billion committed to-date. Approximately $7.6 to $8.1 billion in funding and $6.4 to $7 billion in financing outstanding; and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Provincial government -</strong> Approximately $1.4 billion committed to-date. Approximately $9.1 to $9.6 billion in funding and $6.4 to $7 billion in financing outstanding.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Federal and provincial governments made significant investments towards the new supply of affordable rental homes in 2023:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-exceeds-housing-targets-by-51-and-receives-114-million-from-the-government-of-ontarios-building-faster-fund/">City exceeded housing targets for 2023 set by the Government of Ontario by 51%.</a> As a result, in February 2024, the Province committed to providing the City with $114 million in funding through its Building Faster Fund in response to action taken by the City and to support future home building targets. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-receives-471-million-from-the-government-of-canada-to-create-11780-new-homes-in-toronto/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20Housing%20Accelerator%20Fund%20(HAF,housing%20for%20people%20in%20Toronto.">City received an allocation of $471 million from the Government of Canada</a> through the Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) in December 2023. This funding will contribute to achieving an additional 11,780 homes in Toronto on top of what has already been projected over the next three years.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The City secured <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.PH8.11">$169.4 million in funding for 416 new rental homes with supports in 2023 through Phase 3 of the Rapid Housing Initiative</a> (RHI), bringing the total to $610.8 million in federal capital grant funding through the program to create 1,504 new rent-geared-to-income (RGI) and/or supportive homes. </span></li>
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<p style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; tab-stops: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The City is investing these funds through programs including the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition, Rental Housing Supply, and supportive housing programs that aim to protect existing supply of homes and increase net new homes delivered on City, private and non-profit lands. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In spite of these investments, there continues to be inadequate financial support in the form of capital funding, low-cost financing and public land to build a new supply of homes, and insufficient operating funding to lower the cost of rent and provide wrap-around support services for residents. These enhanced investments are particularly needed to help the City make meaningful progress in meeting the following targets that are currently behind schedule, including: </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creating new affordable, adequate and safe homes that are targeted for Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities, as well as for women and gender diverse people;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Increasing the supply of supportive homes for people experiencing homelessness to relieve the pressure on shelters, hospitals and correctional facilities;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assisting low-income households with housing benefits to ensure they can exit homelessness and remain housed, particularly through an increased allocation under the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) program;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Investing in repairs, accessibility modifications, energy efficiency and resiliency of existing homes to ensure the existing supply of homes remain safe and functional for current and future residents; and,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Investing in long-term care facilities provided by the City and non-profit organizations to address the growing need of our senior population.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Additionally, increasing social assistance rates along with increased investments in mental health and addictions services, enhanced resources for community and primary health care providers, new and sustainable funding to ensure availability of appropriate harm reduction and overdose prevention services are critical to complement investments in housing solutions. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>United Way </strong><strong>of Greater Toronto </strong><strong>Donation to the City of Toronto </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This report seeks approval from City Council to accept a donation in the amount of $120,000 and enter into a donor agreement with United Way of Greater Toronto, a registered charity, to provide kitchen equipment at the new modular supportive housing building at 90 Dunn Avenue. The value of this donation exceeds the $50,000 threshold for donation acceptance under the Donations to the City of Toronto for Community Benefits Policy. As a result, City Council approval is required to accept this donation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The donated funds will be used for one-time contribution towards the development of 90 Dunn Avenue and will not create any future year pressure on the City. The proposed changes are not included in the Housing Secretariat’s 2024 proposed budget. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">City staff will submit a request for an in-year adjustment through the next 2024 Operating Variance report. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Financial </strong><strong>I</strong><strong>ncentives for New Affordable Rental Homes in </strong><strong>Downsview </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In May 2024, City Council <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.PH12.1">adopted</a> the "Update Downsview Plan: Secondary Plan, Zoning By-law, Urban Design Guidelines and Master Environmental Servicing Plan" as a comprehensive planning framework for the Downsview area to guide development of resilient, sustainable and equitable complete communities.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Downsview Secondary Plan facilitates a significant amount of new housing – including affordable housing – that contributes to achieving the City’s housing targets, as well as employment growth that contributes to the local and regional economy.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canada Lands Company, a self-financing federal Crown corporation specializing in real estate and development, is planning to deliver approximately 2,560 affordable rental homes at Downsview West and Arbo (William Baker), exceeding its affordable housing requirements under the Downsview Secondary Plan (see Figure 1).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Through this report, City staff are requesting Council authorization to enter into an Memorandum of Understanding with Parc Downsview Park Incorporated, a subsidiary of Canada Lands Company, to support the delivery of the affordable housing outcomes in Downsview. This is a unique partnership opportunity for the City and Canada Lands Company to advance a public developer model on federally-owned lands.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As part of the Memorandum of Understanding, and in order to achieve these affordable housing outcomes, Canada Lands Company is requesting a waiver of planning application and building permit fees for these affordable rental homes from the City. The value of these incentives is estimated at $5.3 million. The waivers are not a direct payment from the City but rather forgone revenues.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2,560</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">49 years</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">$2,195,428</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">$3,094,180</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">$5,289,608</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Additionally, these affordable rental homes, which also meet the provincial definition of affordable residential units as outlined under the <em>Development Charges Act, 1997</em>, are eligible for waivers of Development Charges, Community Benefit Charges and Parkland Dedication requirements as required under Bill 23, <em>More Homes Built Faster Act,</em> 2022 (Bill 23).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bill 23 and other recent provincial legislation (including Bill 108, <em>More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019</em> and Bill 109, <em>More Homes for Everyone Act, 2022</em>) have negatively impacted the City's key tools and programs for creating new housing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the absence of the City being fully reimbursed by the province for the lost revenues as a result of Bill 23, and without new financial and policy tools, the City is at risk of not being able to provide the services essential to support growth even in the short term, and deliver existing housing programs necessary to scale up supply and respond to the needs of residents, and plan for complete communities.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer has reviewed this report and agrees with the information as presented in the Financial Impact Section.</span></p> | <p>Toronto is facing housing and homelessness crises - one where rising rents are creating unaffordable conditions for middle-income earners to live and work in the city; while a second crisis is due to a lack of deeply affordable and supportive homes for those with low-incomes, or who are experiencing homelessness, and often physical, mental health and/or addiction challenges. These crises are being driven by factors that range from inadequate housing supply, low wages and social assistance rates that have not kept pace with the rising cost of living, and structural inequities that disproportionately impact Indigenous, Black, and other racialized groups.</p>
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<p>As noted in the <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-234818.pdf">Perspective on the Rental Housing Roundtable</a> report, these intersecting but separate crises require different policy solutions. The City of Toronto and its partners are taking a range of actions across the housing continuum that are guided by the HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan ("HousingTO Plan") and the Housing Action Plan (2022-2026). Together, these plans provide a blueprint for comprehensive action that is rooted in the <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/948f-Toronto-Housing-Charter-2020.pdf">Toronto Housing Charter - Opportunity for All</a> which recognizes that all orders of government, including municipalities have a role to play in furthering the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing that is affirmed in international law.</p>
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<p>City Council, through <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.EX9.3">EX9.3 - Generational Transformation of Toronto’s Housing System to Urgently Build More Affordable Homes</a>, directed staff to combine the annual update reports for the HousingTO Plan and Housing Action Plan. This report, along with Attachment 1, provide an overview of the progress made in 2023 in implementing these housing plans through five key areas: </p>
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<li>Creating new supply;</li>
<li>Protecting, and preserving existing supply;</li>
<li>Supporting renters, and improving housing stability;</li>
<li>Prioritizing diverse housing needs; and</li>
<li>Transforming housing policies.</li>
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<p>Building upon the progress made in 2023, the City is advancing transformative initiatives that will further support these objectives including establishing the new Rental Housing Supply Program (RHSP), the Community Housing Sector Modernization and Growth Strategy and developing the City’s first Renovictions By-law. This report also emphasizes the priority actions being taken by the City throughout 2024 to continue making progress towards these objectives.</p>
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<p>This report also seeks authority to advance a number of critical partnerships that will further enable the City to deliver more affordable housing and support services for residents:</p>
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<li>Establishing a Memorandum of Understanding with Parc Downsview Park Incorporated to deliver an estimated 2,560 affordable rental homes in Downsview. Parc Downsview Park Incorporated is responsible for the planning and development of lands in Downsview on behalf of its parent company, Canada Lands Company Limited.</li>
<li>Receiving a donation of $120,000 from United Way of Greater Toronto towards the supportive housing project at 90 Dunn Avenue.</li>
<li>Investing City of Toronto's 2024 allocation under the provincial Building Faster Fund in affordable housing and housing enabling infrastructure projects.</li>
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<p>As outlined in this report, the City and its community partners continue to invest the greatest effort and resources towards addressing the housing crises. While municipal and community action are important to meet the objectives the City's HousingTO Plan and Housing Action Plan, action and increased investment by federal and provincial governments are required to make transformative improvements to housing outcomes for Toronto residents.</p>
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<p>The 2023 Housing Update Report is prepared by the Housing Secretariat with input from various City divisions and agencies including: City Planning, CreateTO, Environment and Energy, Financial Planning, the Indigenous Affairs Office, the Office of Strategic Partnerships, Municipal Licensing and Standards, Seniors Services and Long-Term Care, Toronto Shelter and Support Services, Social Development, Finance and Administration, Strategic Public and Employee Communications, Toronto Building, and Toronto Community Housing Corporation.</p> | 15 | 5 | CMMTTEE | PH | All | N | 1728446400000 | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | — | — | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | Decision information not found | false | Adopted | — | … | … | … | … |