
Northcote
Northcote is one of our supportive housing sites; it is a six‐bedroom rooming house located in the Queen and Dufferin area and houses 6 adult
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Northcote is one of our supportive housing sites; it is a six‐bedroom rooming house located in the Queen and Dufferin area and houses 6 adult
Lawrence Shelter has a 55-co-ed singles client capacity; individuals must be 18+ years old to become a Homes First client at this site. All Homes
Meegwetch is one of our supportive housing sites; it is a five-storey brick apartment building with a total of 50 units and a townhouse complex
Jarvis House is one of our supportive housing sites; it is located near Jarvis and Dundas, is owned by TCH and the building and tenant
Huron is one of our supportive housing sites; it is a three-storey, century old brick building consisting of 10 partially self‐contained bachelor units located in
Delta Hotel Shelter has a 280-co-ed singles and couples client capacity and is pet friendly. The shelter opened in response to the growing pandemic-related need
Bathurst-Lakeshore is the newest Homes First shelter, serving 100 singles and 50 couples across two floors. Bathurst-Lakeshore houses a team of enhanced case management workers that work to stabilize residents and secure them appropriate, long-term housing.
St. Clair Shelter is an emergency 90-bed shelter for men and women. Many residents are employed or actively seeking employment. The shelter serves people who have recently become homeless. People stay until stabilized and are often rehoused.
Commonly viewed as the big pink building at the corner of Wellington and Strachan, Strachan House is a former textile factory that was converted into housing in 1996. Inspired by the former Homes First project StreetCity, Strachan uses a low-barrier and assertive tolerance approach to serve those who have been street involved and chronically homeless for years.
Strachan House consists of 12 houses, each with their own kitchen, bathrooms and common area. Strachan houses 83 individuals in private units, and 5 in emergency shelter beds. In 1999 Levitt Goodman Architects, the architects behind Strachan’s unique interior, were awarded the Governor General’s Medal of Excellence for its design.
Opened in late 2019, the Willowdale Welcome Centre specifically services refugees to Canada, with 155 beds for women and 80 beds for men.
Photo by Andrew Francis Wallace