Here you will find major staff reports and current research on homelessness trends and service use.
Learn about Supportive Housing Developments.
Learn about the 2024 Street Needs Assessment.
This A to Z glossary provides stakeholders with a list of key terms and definitions for housing and homelessness services.
The service system overview groups services into related categories.
These resources outline tips, protocols and practices that Toronto Shelter and Support Services staff should follow when engaging with Indigenous partners and communities in keeping with the Meeting in the Middle Engagement Strategy and Action Plan, co-created with the Indigenous Community Advisory Board and the Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council.
Toronto has a network of almost 2,400 laneways that stretch over 300km throughout some of Toronto’s most desirable, walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods. Architects, planners and urbanists have long considered laneways an untapped resource for infill housing.
The Laneway Suites report proposes a new vision for laneway housing, which recognizes detached secondary suites, including laneways suites, as non-severable and ancillary to the principal dwelling.
Toronto has submitted its proposals to the federal government’s National Housing Strategy consultation. Taking Action on Housing speaks to the housing crisis in Toronto and across the country that has engulfed so many – from seniors to young professionals to vulnerable persons.
The federal government has released a Summary Report of what it heard during consultations.
The City’s Private Sector Housing Roundtable propose the City pursue a strategy which would “reset” a number of City housing policies and more strongly engage the federal and provincial governments in investing in affordable housing.
Home ownership is a widely-accepted way to build equity and ensure one’s housing quality, yet it is out of reach for many Toronto households. This study examines the impact of federal and provincial investments and the work of the City of Toronto’s Affordable Housing Office, in partnership with non-profit housing providers, to facilitate affordable home ownership, between 2006 and 2011.
Subsidized Housing Waiting List Data: Quarterly reports showing data related to the centralized waiting list for subsidized housing (also called rent-geared-to-income housing) administered by the City of Toronto.
Learn more about subsidized housing or rent-geared-to-income housing.