Item - 2019.MM8.49

City Council on June 18 and 19, 2019, adopted the following:

1.  City Council request the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with CreateTO, the Real Estate Services Division, the Corporate Finance Division, the Shelter, Support and Housing Administration Division, Toronto Public Health and City Planning, to report to the Planning and Housing Committee at it's meeting on November 13, 2019 on a new modular supportive housing pilot initiative.

 
2.  City Council request the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, in consultation with City Councillors, CreateTO, City Planning and the Real Estate Services Division, to identify public properties appropriate for the development of modular supportive housing on an accelerated basis.

 
3.  City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to design an expedited Planning approvals process for the rapid development of modular supportive housing to be included in the report referred to in Part 1 above.

 
4.  City Council request the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to convene an interdivisional working group composed of senior City staff representing, as necessary, but not limited to, CreateTO, the Real Estate Services Division, the Corporate Finance Division, the Shelter, Support and Housing Administration Division and City Planning, charged with the expedited development of new modular supportive housing under the pilot initiative.

 
5.  City Council request the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat to continue to consult and engage with the Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness on the implementation of a modular housing pilot.

 
6.  City Council request that the report from the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat referred to in Part 1 above include, but not be limited to:

a.  a minimum of one pilot site for the development of modular supportive housing on an accelerated basis;

b.  in consultation with the Corporate Finance Division and the Shelter, Support and Housing Administration Division, potential Federal, Provincial, City and third party Capital and Operating funding and resources for the development and on-going operation of modular supportive housing;

c.  the results of consultations with representatives of the modular and supportive housing sectors;

d.  the procurement process recommended to engage a manufacturer/developer of the new housing;

e.  the procurement process recommended to engage a non-profit operator of the new housing; and

f.  a review of best practices in the modular and supportive housing sectors, such as Vancouver's experience.