Item - 2025.EC24.6

The Economic and Community Development Committee:

1. Requested the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit, Social Development to invite Toronto Community Housing to provide to the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee a presentation on initiatives to collect and analyze disaggregated race-based data on evictions, arrears, and tenant relocations.

2. Requested the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit, Social Development to invite Toronto Community Housing and the Housing Secretariat to provide to the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee a presentation and a summary of programs currently addressing evictions by the first quarter of 2026, including equity-based data, including race and gender, collected through various Toronto Community Housing and other social housing programs.

At its meeting on September 3, 2025, the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee considered item CR7.3 and made recommendations to Economic and Community Development Committee.

Summary from the Letter (May 27, 2025) from Walied Khogali Ali:

The Ombudsman Toronto report (Item CC30.3, May 22, 2025) underscores gaps in tenant protection in multi-tenant homes, disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous, and racialized residents. Disaggregated race-based data collection is essential for identifying systemic barriers and informing equitable housing policy. The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee has a mandate to advance data-driven approaches that address anti-Black racism.