The housing development office supports the Region of Peel's 10-year housing and homelessness plan,
which sets the long-term outcomes to make affordable housing available to all Peel residents
and prevent chronic homelessness.
In our role we implement Peel Region's Housing Master Plan,
a key strategy of the 10-year plan, which focuses on developing
affordable housing on Region-owned lands.
The Housing Master Plan is a long-term portfolio
approach to housing development as opposed to working on project-by-project basis.
The plan targets 5,650 new affordable rental units as well as emergency shelter beds .
Regional council approved a 1 billion capital envelope in fall of 2019
to create an initial 2,240 affordable housing units and shelter beds by 2028.
This 1 billion funding allocation includes a commitment of 335.3 million of Regional funds and the
recently announced federal investment of 276.4 million available through the National Housing Strategy
and 61.1 million of funding through the existing federal and provincial housing programs.
We're responsible for implementing the incentive pilot program.
The program is intended to provide
capital grants to encourage private and non-profit developers to build affordable
units in development projects across Peel Region.
It supports the work of local municipalities to
address a growing market need and aims to create larger family sized affordable rental units in
locations that are close to transit and other amenities.
We have several projects that will
yield close to 700 affordable rental units and shelter beds across Peel by 2023.
More than 40% of theses units will be offered at rental rates below 60 percent of the median market rent for the area.
At least 20 percent of the units will be fully accessible.
Our projects will target close to 41% reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse emissions.
We have projects in various stages of development.
We're working on creating affordable housing at Mayfield West secondary plan area.
We have completed preliminary feasibility studies for 10 sites and 9 more are underway .
In Mississauga we have two projects: Brightwater and East Avenue that are going through project
design and planning processes.
The new location of the Peel family shelter will provide approximately
120 shelter bed facility to meet the dire need to address homelessness in our community.
Preliminary planning is underway for the Chelsea Garden site in Brampton.
The 360 City Center project in Mississauga will be ready for occupancy in early 2021 .
We're also supporting the non-profit sector to build affordable housing with a project by
Indwell community homes and the Brampton Bramalea Christian Fellowship residents.
Both will be ready for occupancy in 2021.
The Mayfield seniors apatment in Caledon provides homes to 60 seniors.
Here's a look at the communities we've created for Peel residents.
Mayfield Seniors apartments is a universally accessible building. This building has a
sense of community with dedicated rooms to park scooters and bicycles, an outdoor courtyard with
a barbecue and raised planters. Our buildings provide a 100 percent smoke free environment.
The 360 City Center Drive has storage rooms in each unit , a children's playroom, outdoor terrace and a fitness room.
The building is in prime location that is close to transit, amenities ,
as well as educational and cultural facilities.
Close collaboration with our local municipal partners is key to the success we've reached so far
Our efforts are worthwhile when they meet the needs of our community.