Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that
makes space for creativity and transforms communities.
Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that
makes space for creativity and transforms communities.
Toronto Community Housing is committed to providing affordable housing, connecting tenants to services and opportunities, and working together to build healthy communities. One key approach is Toronto Community Housing’s Community Revitalization Strategy. It's a comprehensive approach to revitalization in some of Toronto Community Housing’s oldest and largest communities.
The buildings in the Regent Park neighbourhood were built more than 50 years ago - they are showing their age. The neighbourhood is isolated from the surrounding community and the configuration of public space is poor. The public parks have no frontage or access from roads.
Over the next several years, Regent Park will be going through a remarkable transition that will mean big changes and exciting opportunities for both current residents and people interested in living in Toronto’s downtown. Revitalization provides a transformative way to invest in this neighbourhood and create economic opportunity.
A key tenet of the revitalization is including both rent-geared-to-income and market units – together in the same community. When Regent Park is completed over the next 10 to 15 years, 12,500 people will live in 5,115 units across 69 acres of the largest publicly funded community in Canada. The plan includes the replacement of the existing more than 2,000 units in Regent Park with new, energy efficient, modern units and the introduction approximately 3,000 market units for sale.
Toronto Community Housing is reintegrating social housing with surrounding neighbourhoods to establish mixed income, mixed use communities and provide opportunities for affordable home ownership.
