Item - 2022.PH35.26

The Planning and Housing Committee:

1. Requested the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division to:

a. Report to Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2023 with a status update report on the Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods – Beaches East York Pilot Project; and

b. Update the City's Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods website with information about the status of the Beaches East York Pilot Project at the earliest possible opportunity.

In February 2022 the Planning & Housing Committee received a PH31.6, "Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods – Update Report," which included an information on the progress being made here in Beaches-East York on the Missing Middle Pilot. Through the lengthy technical work required to assess city-owned sites, City staff have captured important lessons and information that will advance our progress on adding much-needed housing forms in the city.

As the work continues, I'd like to request that the next Pilot update be brought to Committee in the first quarter of 2023 and, in the meantime, that the City's Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (EHON) website be updated with information and visuals for the many residents of Beaches-East York and Toronto who continue to be interested in the Pilot.

As Toronto's housing market becomes increasingly out of reach we're going to need to keep finding creative ways to work with our local communities to add more housing options. That means working with community to showcase what Missing Middle can look like, and it also means working through the development process to better understand the policy changes required to bring in the housing our city will need. For Toronto to continue being a place of opportunity – for those here now, and those who will be in the future – continued progress on increasing housing options is essential.