Cash crunch means TCH could board up a unit a day in 2018 – Thestar.com
Jan. 17, 2017
Repair money to run out by end of the year, with more than 177,000 people already on the waitlist for subsidized housing.
Toronto Community Housing is on track to board up one unit per day in 2018 if more funding for repairs can’t be secured, the head of the social housing corporation told the Star.
An estimated 425 units are already slated to close in 2017, pushing the total number of boarded-up subsidized housing units to nearly 1,000 with more than 177,000 people on the waitlist in Toronto — enough for three sold-out crowds at the Rogers Centre.
After years of deterioration, including brick facing literally crumbling to the ground, TCH recently confirmed that more than 100 families must be relocated from their homes in the Grassways community near Jane St. and Firgrove Cres.
