St. Clare’s Housing
St. Clare’s Housing is a social justice landlord and developer working in active partnerships to create sustainable, safe, and affordable housing solutions.
As one of Canada’s largest private, non-profit developers of new affordable housing with supports, St. Clare’s Housing has enhanced neighbourhoods across Toronto’s downtown core. Our tenants represent a cross-section of the city’s racial, ability, gender, ethnic, and class diversity. Most tenants pay a rent geared to their income; others pay market rent for their apartments.
Our experience has shown that healthy communities and healthy tenancies reinforce one another. Together, our tenants, staff, and Partner Agencies engage in St. Clare’s Housing’s “community first” model. In partnership, we work together to reduce homelessness in ways that are scalable, replicable, and enduring.
St. Clare’s has contributed to improving and preserving neighbourhood diversity by creating affordable housing in 8 of Toronto’s downtown communities.
Across those Toronto neighbourhoods, St. Clare’s operates 944 units of new and revived affordable housing.
- 390 studios
- 347 one bedrooms
- 103 two bedrooms
- 13 three bedrooms
- 4 four bedrooms
- 32 townhouses
- 27 artist units
Whether it’s new construction, increasing density on existing sites, repurposing buildings, or improving established housing supply to work better and last longer, St. Clare’s is willing to consider all options. Of our 944 units, 213 units were created by repurposing surplus buildings, including a hotel, a church, and a medical office building. 73 units were added to existing sites through traditional or modular construction, and 424 were old buildings that we acquired and rehabilitated. This approach ensures that new affordable housing is being built and existing affordable housing is being maintained and improved. No units lost, more units gained.