Item - 2025.HS8.3

Tracking Status

This item was considered by the Housing Rights Advisory Committee on November 19, 2025. The Committee received the item for information only. No further action will be taken on this item.

HS8.3 - Centralized Access System for Affordable Rental and Rent-Geared-to-Income Homes

Decision Type:: Presentation

Status:: Received

Wards:: All

Committee Decision

The Housing Rights Advisory Committee received the item for information.

Decision Advice and Other Information

The Manager, Access to Housing, Housing Secretariat and Director, Tenants Services and Support, Housing Secretariat delivered a presentation on Centralized Access System for Affordable Rental and Rent-Geared-to-Income Homes.

Summary

In response to Item HS7.8, Yolisa de Jager, Manager, Access to Housing and Sarah Blackstock, Director, Tenants Services and Support, Housing Secretariat, will give a presentation on centralized access system for affordable rental and Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) homes. The presentation will provide an overview of the City’s centralized access system for RGI homes, which will also include affordable rental homes in 2026; an explanation of the differences between RGI and affordable rental homes; an overview of how human rights principles are informing the design, implementation and plans for continuous improvement of the access system and responses to questions previously posed by the Housing Rights Advisory Committee.

Background Information

Presentation from Yolisa de Jager, Manager, Access to Housing and Sarah Blackstock, Director, Tenants Services & Support
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/hs/bgrd/backgroundfile-260148.pdf

Communications

(November 19, 2025) E-mail from Nicole Corrado (HS.New)

Motions

Motion to Receive Item moved by Elizabeth McIsaac (Carried)

That the item be received for information.