(AGENPARL) - Roma, 8 Agosto 2023 - (AGENPARL) – mar 08 agosto 2023 City of Toronto Media Relations has issued the following:
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Media Advisory
August 8, 2023
City of Toronto to celebrate the ground-breaking of new Housing Now rental homes on City land at 5207 Dundas St. W.
Tomorrow, Mayor Olivia Chow will be at 5207 Dundas St. W. to celebrate the start of construction of new rental homes as part of the Housing Now Initiative – creating new mixed-income complete communities on City-owned land.
The Mayor will be joined by the following dignitaries at the ground-breaking:
• Councillor Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth)
• Abi Bond, Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, City of Toronto
• Gregg Lintern, Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, City of Toronto,
• Vic Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO
• Ken Tanenbaum, Vice-Chairman, Kilmer Group
• Andrew Joyner, Managing Director, Tricon Residential
Date: Wednesday, August 9
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Location: 5207 Dundas St. W. (https://goo.gl/maps/tPJm5BnhJVa9y1ts6)
The homes at this site are part of the Housing Now Initiative that aims to deliver 10,000 affordable rental homes within mixed-income, mixed-use and complete communities on City-owned lands by 2030. Housing Now supports the implementation of the City’s HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan (HousingTO Plan), which targets the approval of 40,000 new affordable rental homes with 18,000 supportive homes to help increase housing stability for Toronto residents over the next 10 years. More information about Housing Now is available on the City’s website: www.toronto.ca/community-people/community-partners/affordable-housing-partners/housingto-2020-2030-action-plan.