Affordable & Supportive Housing
Spotlight
Parliament Street Supportive Housing
The transformative rehabilitation and retrofit project of 504–508 Parliament Street adapts Second Empire-style townhouses into supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness. This initiative, led by Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services in collaboration with Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) and the City of Toronto, provides dignified, supportive housing within a heritage context. The project includes 31 rooms with...
Rose Avenue Supportive Housing
The comprehensive renovation of 41 Rose Avenue transformed a vacant building into a vibrant multi-unit rooming house within the Cabbagetown Northwest Area Heritage Conservation District. This initiative, led by Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services in collaboration with Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) and the City of Toronto, provides seven self-contained rooms, each equipped with a private washroom...
Regent Park Revitalization Master Plan: Phases 4 & 5
Regent Park Revitalization Phases 4 and 5 represent the final chapter in the comprehensive revitalization of Regent Park, Canada’s oldest and largest social housing community. Originally constructed in the late 1940s and influenced by garden city planning principles, Regent Park was conceived as a collection of low-rise buildings set within open lawns and pedestrian pathways....
444 Logan Avenue Net Zero Renewal
The Ray McCleary Towers, located at 444 Logan Avenue, opened in 1967 as the first housing initiative from WoodGreen Community Services. Named for Reverend Ray McCleary (1907–1967), WoodGreen’s founder and a respected community figure, the building honours his legacy of charity in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood. The 444 Logan project, led by WoodGreen Community Housing and...
Phillips House: North York General Hospital
After remaining unused for many years, Phillips House now has a new life as North York General Hospital’s centre that provides outpatient mental health care for children and adolescents. The property is located north of the hospital at Sheppard and Leslie. While the house and grounds, designed by Mathers and Haldenby Architects and Edwin Kay,...
Lawrence-Orton
Toronto Community Housing’s Lawrence Orton campus is a 336-unit complex completed in 1969, which houses more than 1,000 residents. It was selected by TCHC for their landmark “ReSet” program, which directs comprehensive capital repair and social reinvestment at a campus scale to revitalize the most challenged sites in their portfolio. Since 2014, ERA Architects, in...
Regent Park Commemoration Strategy
Regent Park is the largest social housing neighbourhood built in Canada’s history, with a layered history of development through several eras. Since 2005, it has been undergoing extensive revitalization, moving towards a more mixed-use and mixed-income neighbourhood. To celebrate the neighbourhoods history, Toronto Community Housing Corporation commissioned ERA to design a commemoration strategy. The strategy’s...
4301 Kingston
ERA Architects, in joint venture with SvN Architects and Planners, has completed the deep energy retrofit of 4301 Kingston, a 419-unit complex completed in 1968 in east Scarborough which houses more than 1,000 residents, and owned by Toronto Community Housing. The project improved tenant health, comfort, and safety, while reducing utility consumption and GHG emissions...
Ken Soble Tower
The Ken Soble Tower Transformation is a ground-breaking project rehabilitating a post-war apartment tower in Hamilton, Ontario. The achieved goal meets Passive House standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a staggering 94% and lays the groundwork for industry-wide, ultra-low energy retrofits needed to maintain and upgrade thousands of apartments across Canada. “Ultra-low energy retrofits...
