Toronto Community Housing
931 Yonge Street, 3rd Floor Toronto ON M4W2H2
Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. We are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner. TCHC represents a $9 billion public asset. TCHC houses tenants in 88 of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods, providing homes to over 40,000 low and moderate-income households. Our 94,000 residents come from many different backgrounds with a diversity in age, education, language, mental and physical disability, religion, ethnicity and race: 32 per cent of residents are children and youth, 44 per cent are adults, and 23 per cent are seniors (aged 59+) 85 per cent of households pay rent-geared-to-income (RGI), with most RGI rent assessed at 30 per cent of gross income 25 per cent of households are single parent families 54 per cent of households reported having at least one member with a disability. Some households may have more than 1 type of disability in the home. TCHC receives most of our operating funding from rent paid by residents (55 per cent) and from subsidies from the City of Toronto (39 per cent). The remaining 6 per cent of operating funding comes from rental of commercial spaces; parking, laundry and cable fees; and income from investments.