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City of Toronto - Affordable Housing Master Thread

"Parliament and Gerrard Development Corporation, a partnership of The Daniels Corporation (‘Daniels”) and Toronto Community Housing Corporation (‘TCHC’) (jointly the ‘Owner’) is seeking applications from qualified affordable housing providers to purchase at-cost, the affordable housing component within a proposed mixed-use building located at 500 Dundas Street East in the heart of Regent Park."

Affordable Housing Call for Applications | Daniels

Parliament and Gerrard Development Corporation, a partnership of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation and The Daniels Corporation (jointly the ‘Owner’) is seeking applications from qualified affordable housing providers to form the affordable housing component in a proposed residential...
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Anyone have any insight on this 500 DUNDAS STREET EAST site..?

I don't see any site-specific information on the UT Map..??
 
HousingNowTO said:
"Parliament and Gerrard Development Corporation, a partnership of The Daniels Corporation (‘Daniels”) and Toronto Community Housing Corporation (‘TCHC’) (jointly the ‘Owner’) is seeking applications from qualified affordable housing providers to purchase at-cost, the affordable housing component within a proposed mixed-use building located at 500 Dundas Street East in the heart of Regent Park."

Affordable Housing Call for Applications | Daniels

Parliament and Gerrard Development Corporation, a partnership of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation and The Daniels Corporation (jointly the ‘Owner’) is seeking applications from qualified affordable housing providers to form the affordable housing component in a proposed residential...
danielshomes.ca danielshomes.ca

Anyone have any insight on this 500 DUNDAS STREET EAST site..?

I don't see any site-specific information on the UT Map..??
Click to expand...

I believe it's the Regent Park sales centre site
 
HousingNowTO said:
"Parliament and Gerrard Development Corporation, a partnership of The Daniels Corporation (‘Daniels”) and Toronto Community Housing Corporation (‘TCHC’) (jointly the ‘Owner’) is seeking applications from qualified affordable housing providers to purchase at-cost, the affordable housing component within a proposed mixed-use building located at 500 Dundas Street East in the heart of Regent Park."

Affordable Housing Call for Applications | Daniels

Parliament and Gerrard Development Corporation, a partnership of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation and The Daniels Corporation (jointly the ‘Owner’) is seeking applications from qualified affordable housing providers to form the affordable housing component in a proposed residential...
danielshomes.ca danielshomes.ca

Anyone have any insight on this 500 DUNDAS STREET EAST site..?

I don't see any site-specific information on the UT Map..??
Click to expand...

There is an existing thread for this address, but I believe @DavidCapizzano is correct in his assessment. Nonetheless, the existing thread first:

Regent Park: The Wyatt | 89m | 27s | Daniels | KPMB

I was walking through the area the other day and was impressed at how well everything is aging into place. I also appreciate that all of the buildings have a different look or treatment that helps set them apart from each other unlike City Place. The Wyatt is probably the most low key of all of...
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The presentation centre site:

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N/E corner of Regent and Dundas.
 
Images from the Daniel's website -

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Agree that it appears to be the SALES CENTRE lands, and the affordable housing will be podium-strata within a larger condo development.
 
So, I know that @HousingNowTO between his day job and his volunteering efforts and time as a parent............. has way too much free time on his hands and is perpetually looking for someway to break the boredom.........

Thus, being the helpful person I am.........

Some reading material for him.

A Report to the next meeting TCHC's BIFAC Ctte outlines some next steps on them getting back into the housing construction business.


From the above:

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The above seeks to to fund further due diligence on which projects to push first.

The buildings are roughly grouped into two; the first is the Housing-ready group, which is public, and for which sites have some portion of the required approvals, subject to financing; the other is 'potential housing sites'. The former are listed immediately below. The latter are confidential, but not too hard to discern.

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More detail on the above:

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This next one requires @HousingNowTO 's oversight:

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As does this one:

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* On this one, I will remind UT'ers I did some modelling of what this site could look like, particularly with some adjacent land acquisition. Note that the first build does not require the rest of the land to be in place.

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On the confidential sites, I can say that several come from the larger Community Revitalization list published some years ago.

There remains a priority to use land already under ownership; to try to renew existing housing stock when possible, and to leverage land value to get private partners to cover a significant portion of the building/rebuilding costs.
 
A further report to next week's Planning and Housing has a host of other changes in policy in it.

The report is titled as follows:

Community Housing Sector Modernization and Growth Strategy

Many of these govern leases of City land/property to non-profit providers, but there are other changes, including to MURA.


There are really way too many recommendations here for me to copy/paste them over..........so i encourage the interested to follow the link and have a look-see.

Some good stuff there.
 
More, the Feds out this morning with details on their 1.5B to support new coop construction.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Liberal government launches $1.5-billion program to build more co-op housing

Housing Minister Sean Fraser is in Winnipeg today to announce the program, which is expected to build thousands of new homes by 2028
www.theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com

From the above:

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Of note, this program was first promised in the 2022 budget (looks at calendar)..... what crisis?
 
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A story from CBC Toronto on renovations at a TCHC owned building on Asquith in the Yonge/Bloor area.


The building is in the process of being renovated to use heatpumps. This is a technology of which I am generally an advocate. For many older buildings its the closest one will likely get to seeing Central A/C, significantly increasing summer comfort levels, its also, broadly, quite efficient.

However, in this case there does seem to be a problem. In this particular building, the manner of installation, in light of pre-existing duct work has resulted in lower ceilings in tenant units. I don't mean a little lower either........ceilings have reduced from to less than 7ft. One tenant brought the matter to the media, and I confess, I'm sympathetic.

If we were talking a reduction to as low as 7'6 ({the minimum the OBC generally provides for), if one weren't an NBA player or such, I think the case could be made that's if its not optimal, its still a reasonable trade.

But sub 7-ft is very low!
 
On the Rental Housing Supply Program which I posted about above...........

Planning and Housing adopted this at this week's meeting.

Interestingly, the plan is not without some bits of controversy:

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From: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/new-affordable-housing-plan-1.7234406

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One amendment from Josh Matlow failed; while others by Ctte Chair Perks and Vice-Chair Bradford did pass:

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The Housing Now Action Plan tracking report is one of the items submitted to next week's Planning and Housing Ctte:


Its a bit long for me to copy/paste all of the content, so if this interests you, follow the link.

I will, however, bring forward a few of the slides where the delivery dates are showing significant slippage:

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1250 - Eglinton - 15 months of slippage

TCHC Infill Opportunity - 9 months slippage

Housing on TDSB lands - 1 year slippage

As of Right zoning for Midrise - 1 year slippage? (not sure about this one, I was under the impression this was closer ...hmmmm

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251 Esther Shiner - 1 year slippage.

* The MTSA item IS being held up the province.

@HousingNowTO
 
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