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Greg Suttor

Supportive Housing in Ontario: Estimating the Need

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There is an estimated need of 33,000 units of supportive housing currently in Ontario. This technical report provides preliminary population-based estimates of need for housing with support for people with serious mental illness or addiction in Ontario. It has generated an estimate of the need for housing with support for mental illness and addictions. This is based on cascading prevalence and propensities of severe mental illness, household formation, low income, need for support in this subset, and bearing in mind the population already in housing with support (or in institutions and not ready).

Supportive Housing: Estimating the Need

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Greg Suttor

Greg Suttor

Greg Suttor is a Senior Researcher at the Wellesley Institute, focusing primarily on supportive housing. An independent consultant for three years, he was previously a housing researcher and policy advisor for Toronto municipal governments. He was also a policy advisor/researcher at the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, special task forces, and the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership (three cities), as well as being active in provincial, national and local affordable housing organizations. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, on the policy history and impacts of Canadian social housing.

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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.

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