90 Dunn Ave.

In October 2024, the City opened 90 Dunn Ave. a four-storey modular housing building with 51 rent-geared-to-income and supportive homes. Dunn House is Canada’s first-ever social medicine supportive housing initiative, delivered through the City of Toronto’s innovative partnership with the University Health Network (UHN) and United Way Greater Toronto (UWGT), in conjunction with the project’s housing provider, Fred Victor.  

Image of the front the supportive housing building at 90 Dunn Ave.
Supportive housing at 90 Dunn Ave. in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood.

The new homes are studio apartments with a bathroom and a kitchen, with shared laundry, communal areas, and programming space. The homes will be for people experiencing homelessness who are also UHN patients with high volumes of emergency department visits and in-patient admissions.

The support services model for this site was developed by UHN Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, the City and its community partners. It is centred on integrating social determinants of health such as housing and food security, into care delivery and partnering with community organizations to improve the quality of care provided to vulnerable and marginalized populations. A range of health and social services are available onsite, and through the partnership with UHN, residents will also be connected to primary care and other health services within the hospital’s Parkdale campus.

  • Dunn House is Canada’s first-ever social medicine supportive housing initiative, delivered through the City of Toronto’s innovative partnership with the University Health Network (UHN) and United Way Greater Toronto (UWGT), and housing provider, Fred Victor.
  • The project is the result of strong intergovernmental partnerships, including $14 million in capital funding through the Government of Canada’s Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI), City capital funding, incentives and project delivery, as well as approximately $1.53 million annually in operating funding for wraparound support services from the Province of Ontario.
  • The 51 new studio apartments will be supportive and rent-geared-to-income, meaning tenants of Dunn House will pay no more than 30 per cent of their income or the shelter allowance of their social assistance on rent.
  • Supportive housing (or housing with supports) is a combination of deeply affordable housing and on-site supports that enable people to live as independently as possible. Supportive housing can help people stabilize their lives, help them stay housed and positively contribute to communities.

Watch this video to learn why supportive housing is so important (opens in new window) from the people who live and work there.

If you are in need of housing, call 311 or see Finding Housing.

Community Updates

The City’s Community Liaison remains available to respond to your questions about the project and can be reached at communityliaison@bigideaspace.ca or 437-684-5857.

Past Community Updates

Project Fact Sheets

Supplementary Information

Meeting Materials

June 16, 2021 
November 8, 2021
Image from ground breaking ceremony at 150 Dunn Avenue
The City and partners break ground at 150 Dunn in March, 2022 (from left to right: MP Arif Virani, Minister Ahmed Hussen, President of United Way Greater Toronto Daniele Zanotti, President & CEO of UHN Kevin Smith, Former Deputy Mayor Ana Bailão, Mayor John Tory, and Councillor Gord Perks).
Preliminary artist’s rendering of the modular building – Front Elevation on Dunn Avenue. Final design subject to approval.
Preliminary artist’s rendering of the modular building – Front Elevation on Dunn Avenue. Final design subject to approval.

 

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