Toronto shifts its focus from managing homelessness to ending it
At 2.5 million people, Toronto is Canada’s largest city, home to a diversity of neighbourhoods and community interests and until recently, a homelessness challenge with the size and complexity to match.
In February 2005, Toronto City Council made a commitment to end street homelessness by approving a [...]

Innovative financing makes affordable housing possible in a sought-after neighbourhood
Low-income families in Ottawa have few options for purchasing houses: down-payments can be a barrier even if their incomes are stable, and high housing prices are driving people farther from the core, increasing the burden on transportation systems.
Somerset Gardens, an attractive, 11-storey, 119-unit condominium is proof [...]

An alternative to rooming houses on infill lots provides privacy and independence
Working with data from the 2001 Census, the City of Winnipeg identified its Spence and Centennial neighbourhoods as areas for major improvement: they have high proportions of one-person households and low-income households. There was a clear need for affordable housing—and the City had several [...]