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Housing for Older Canadians: Designing the Project

Designing the Project provides an overview of the design and development process for creating housing for the “over 55” market. It includes examples of successful housing models and projects. These examples are a useful resource for housing developers, municipalities and non-profits groups who are creating affordable seniors housing.

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Date:

September 2020

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Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation

Housing for Older Canadians: Designing the Project Items

August 4

Housing for Older Canadians: Understanding the Market
Housing for Older Canadians is the definitive guide for understanding the “over 55” housing market. This volume provides an overview of demographics, trends and housing options: a useful resource for developers, municipalities and senior’s organizations.
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August 4

Housing for Older Canadians: Understanding the Market
Housing for Older Canadians is the definitive guide for understanding the “over 55” housing market. This volume provides an overview of demographics, trends and housing options: a useful resource for developers, municipalities and senior’s organizations.
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

The Shift (incubated initiative)
The global movement to secure the human right to housing
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Options for Homes Assessment
Evaluating the Options for Homes model on what it offers to individual purchasers and what housing needs and markets it addresses in the context of affordable housing programs
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Investigating Active Transportation and Seniors in Toronto
Lessons to inform financial investment decisions in urban planning and public safety, to encourage active transportation among our older populations
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Supporting the Big Shift with Age Friendly Development
A survey of research on population aging in relation to transit, with case studies from Canada and around the world on transit-friendly policies and transit infrastructure, and housing forms designed to appeal to seniors
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Symposium summary: Breaking barriers, building confidence: Making Mid-rise Work in Ontario
Insights from the 2009 Midrise Symposium
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January 15

Environmental Scan of Seniors Social Housing Models
Insights into the delivery models that better connect low- and moderate-income seniors living in social housing with health-related and supportive services
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

TimelapseTO
An initiative to engage youth in discussions about the changes happening in their community
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Older Adults/Seniors Recreational Services Strategy
CUI developed a Recreational Services Strategy to help the Town of Ajax respond to the leisure, social and physical space needs of an aging population
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Repositioning Age-Friendly Communities
Research on the extent to which the concept of Age Friendly Communities (AFC) complements or is consistent with other mainstream planning concepts such as Smart Growth and Healthy Cities
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

What is the Missing Middle? A Toronto Housing Challenge Demystified
The term “missing middle” is increasingly used to describe one of many solutions to our pressing housing challenges. But what exactly does the missing middle mean in the Toronto context?
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Scaling Up Affordable Ownership Housing in the GTA
This paper explores what is needed to produce ownership housing that is within reach of middle class households, millennials, new Canadians and those working to join the middle class
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Right to Home
CUI, The Shift, and 14 coast-to-coast partners hosted week of virtual film screenings and live panel discussions from coast to coast about what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next, as we (re)imagine the right to home.
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness

Apartment Licensing in Toronto: A solution in search of a problem?
An evaluation of some of the likely costs and benefits of licensing rental apartments, based on the experiences of other North American cities that have licensing programs, as well as data on housing quality in those cities and comparisons with cities that do not license rental apartments
#AgeFriendlyCommunities #Housing&Homelessness