Toronto marks progress on Parkdale affordable housing project, set to open next fall with mass timber construction

Toronto says an affordable housing project in the city’s Parkdale neighbourhood is be completed next fall, with prefabricated and mass timber construction speeding up the construction process and improving sustainability.

Mayor Olivia Chow along with Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park coun. Gord Perks at a press conference on October 10 marked the setting up of a construction crane for the development, Toronto’s first affordable housing project delivered through the public developer model.

The model allows Toronto to build affordable rental homes for low- and moderate-income residents on city-owned land.