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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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Kate Murray

Healthy Affordable Housing: Solutions to the Private Rental Problem

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Wellesley Institute was awarded funding by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s Solution Lab Program to work collaboratively with building owners, tenants and stakeholders to improve healthy housing quality in the private rental problem. Beginning in 2019, Wellesley worked with SHS Consulting ,experts in housing development policy and research, to understand the current state of apartment buildings in Toronto, and to co-design a suite of solutions to find a way forward to maintain healthy housing in the city. During the Healthy Housing Quality Lab process they developed six reports.

1 - Discovery Report

Download 1 - Discovery Report

2 - Framing Report

Download 2 - Framing Report

3 - Jurisdictional Review

Download 3 - Jurisdictional Review

4 - Preferred Options Report

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5 - Culminating Report

Download 5 - Culminating Report

6 - Summary Solutions

Download 6 - Summary Solutions

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.