The mandate of Toronto Community Housing is to provide quality housing for low and moderate income households and to create community conditions that minimize risk and promote resiliency.

If this mandate is achieved, the following outcomes will result:

• buildings maintained in good repair
• safe communities
• equitable and inclusive life opportunities
• community access to social supports and services and connected to neighbourhood systems
• tenants organized to influence the institutions that govern their lives
• partnerships to create healthy communities
• organizational capacity to meet the mandate

The reality is that not all buildings are in a good state of repair. Many are old and in need of refurbishment. Most of Toronto Community Housing’s tenants are living in poverty. There is a lack of social services and community programs in many neighbourhoods.

To meet its goals, Toronto Community Housing:

• implements a community-based management approach that engages residents in decisions that affect them, their homes and their neighbourhoods

• improves and maintains the physical condition of existing properties

• increases Toronto’s affordable housing by working with governments to identify tenant issues and finding and arranging new funding

Toronto Community Housing has four different roles in creating and supporting community health: