Item - 2025.HS6.9

Tracking Status

This item was considered by Housing Rights Advisory Committee on June 3, 2025 and was adopted with amendments.

HS6.9 - Update on the City�s Multi-Tenant Homes Framework and Supports for Tenants

Decision Type:: Presentation

Status:: Amended

Wards:: All

Committee Decision

The Housing Rights Advisory Committee:

1. Requested that City staff supporting the implementation of the Multi-Tenant Homes Framework include in their report back to City Council in Fall 2025 an assessment of opportunities and considerations for collecting disaggregated data on vulnerable tenants in multi-tenant housing, in order to better identify priority populations that may be disproportionately impacted by housing instability to inform planning to ensure that adequate and appropriate services are available to support them.

Decision Advice and Other Information

Aisha Silim, Manager, Renters Strategy Unit, Housing Secretariat and Joanna Hazelden, Manager, Policy & Planning Services, Municipal Licensing and Standards gave a presentation on the City’s Multi-Tenant Homes Framework.

Summary

Aisha Silim, Manager, Renters Strategy Unit, Housing Secretariat, and senior City staff will provide a presentation on the City’s Multi-Tenant Homes Framework and overview supports for tenants.

Background Information

Presentation on Update on the City�s Multi-Tenant Homes Framework and Supports for Tenants
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/hs/bgrd/backgroundfile-255819.pdf

Communications

(June 2, 2025) Submission from Melissa Goldstein, City of Toronto Tenant Advisory Committee (HS.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/hs/comm/communicationfile-190726.pdf

Motions

Motion to Amend Item moved by Annie Hodgins (Carried)

That the Housing Rights Advisory Committee:

1. Request that City staff supporting the implementation of the Multi-Tenant Homes Framework include in their report back to City Council in Fall 2025 an assessment of opportunities and considerations for collecting disaggregated data on vulnerable tenants in multi-tenant housing, in order to better identify priority populations that may be disproportionately impacted by housing instability to inform planning to ensure that adequate and appropriate services are available to support them.