What's New

March 22, 2010
From a Lawrence Heights childhood to head of Toronto housing Tall and serious, David Mitchell is the first chair of Toronto Community Housing to have actually grown up in one of the city's projects.

March 19, 2010
City’s feature garden wins three awards at Canada Blooms The City of Toronto’s feature garden - “Get Growing Toronto! Urban Agriculture in our City” - won three awards at a special Canada Blooms ceremony last night.

March 1, 2010
Celebrating a financial first in Regent Park revitalization A group of Regent Park residents and local leaders joined RBC today in celebrating "financial firsts" for the community. The event marked another important milestone in the Regent Park revitalization: the opening of the first financial institution, RBC's new branch at the corner of Dundas and Parliament Streets.

February 25, 2010
Toronto Community Housing and the City of Toronto unveil emerging plan for Lawrence Heights revitalization Toronto Community Housing, along with Mayor David Miller, today unveiled the draft revitalization plan for the Lawrence Heights community.

February 23, 2010
Toronto Community Housing board confirms Keiko Nakamura as Chief Executive Officer David Mitchell, chair of the Board of Directors, Toronto Community Housing, today confirmed the appointment of Keiko Nakamura as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Ms. Nakamura has been acting in the position since May 2009.

February 22, 2010
Toronto Community Housing raises $200 million through debt offering to finance next phase of renewal and development activities Toronto Community Housing announced today that it raised $200 million from the issue of long-term debentures maturing February 2040 to finance renewal and development activities in 2010 and 2011.

February 11, 2010
Canadian Federation of Municipalities contributes almost $7 million to 15 green initiatives in Toronto Basil Stewart, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), and Peter Kent, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Americas), were joined today by Mayor David Miller at the Evergreen (Don Valley) Brick Works to celebrate nearly $7 million in funding for 15 green initiatives in Toronto.

February 11, 2010
Toronto Community Housing adopts Ombudsman's recommendations In response to recommendations made by Toronto Ombudsman Fiona Crean, Toronto Community Housing is changing its procedures to ensure fairness when dealing with complaints of serious misconduct made against a tenant.

Annual Review 2008 In response to an organizational review in 2007, Toronto Community Housing set out to implement a strategic response to address gaps in the quality of our housing and customer service. The plan focused on people—tenants, staff and community partners. Thefirst step was to reorganize our business operations to ensure that they met the needs of our tenants, staff and communities that we serve.

January 22, 2010
Haiti Relief Effort On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake. According to the UN, there are an estimated three million people in Haiti in need of aid.