TORONTO — Ground has been broken on a new affordable rental housing project in Toronto’s Scarborough district.
The groundbreaking was for the first of two buildings located at 25 Sewells Rd. in Scarborough, which will provide 201 affordable rental homes.
Once complete, both buildings will include a total of 318 affordable rental homes. The project is the culmination of a partnership between the City of Toronto, Government of Canada and the not-for-profit housing provider and developer, the Brenyon Way Charitable Foundation.
For the announcement, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow was joined by Gary Anandasangaree, minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and MP for Scarborough-Rouge Park, deputy mayor Jennifer McKelvie (Scarborough-Rouge Park) and Eric Cohen, vice-president of the board with the Brenyon Way Charitable Foundation.
The nine-storey building will consist of 100 one-bedroom, 83 two-bedroom and 18 three-bedroom homes. The Brenyon Way Charitable Foundation has been advancing the development and the first building is expected to be completed in September 2025, a release indicates.
The other building will be eight storeys and have 117 affordable rental homes comprising of 68 one-bedroom, 32 two-bedroom and 17 three-bedroom homes.
The Brenyon Way Charitable Foundation will operate the after construction is completed.
All of these homes will be affordable, with rents less than 100 per cent of the average market rent as reported annually by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, adds the release.
The development will offer indoor and outdoor amenities including a central green space, a community garden and a shared dining area, as well as improvements to the existing playground to the south of the existing apartment building on the Brenyon Way lands.
The development will also provide pedestrian connections, including a connection to an existing pedestrian path to the nearby Wickson Trail Park. The development will be integrated with the group of existing buildings on adjacent lands on Brenyon Way which are also owned and operated by the foundation.
In December 2019, the foundation purchased the land at 25 Sewells Rd. and provided $5.6 million in funding for this project. Through the City’s Open Door program, Toronto City Council approved $3.37 million in capital funding and $27 million in financial incentives, including property tax and development charge exemptions and permit fee waivers, to make this site possible. The Government of Canada provided over $15 million in funding and over $79 million in repayable loans through the Affordable Housing Fund.
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