It’s always a delight to see new, non-profit affordable housing projects get underway. On Tuesday April 8, Indwell will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Acorn Flats, the final building on the old Royal Oak Dairy site near Victoria and Barton. Already on the site is Ain-dah-ing, with 13 units of Indigenous housing and the offices of Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing Inc., plus Heartwood Apartments, with 52 units of supportive housing, and the 43 units of the Dairy Lofts. The public is invited to the groundbreaking. You are encouraged to register HERE.
On March 21, Victoria Park Homes launched construction of its long-planned 261-unit affordable housing project at 60 Caledon Avenue near Upper James and Mohawk Road on the Mountain. The $146 million project is expected to open its doors in 2027. At the moment, the plan is for 57 per cent of the units to be affordable, with the rest at market rents, but the hope is to have all of them affordable by the time of opening. There will be a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, a quarter of them accessible. This project took six years to get to this point, including two years lost when federal funding allocations were paused.