As rents spike in the city, getting into affordable housing can involve a tangle of wait-lists, random draws, application systems — and sheer luck
As rents have soared in Toronto — with the average two-bedroom on rentals.ca hitting $3,353 in October — city-dwellers may be left wondering what it takes to find an affordable home.
Want subsidized housing? For a one-bedroom, waits today can be up to 37 years. Moderately affordable rentals? At one building, a lottery recently plucked around 200 winners from 3,808 hopefuls. Need extra support services? In the last fiscal year, that protracted wait-list grew by another 3,094 names, while just 341 people were housed off it. Co-ops with cheaper rents have, in many cases, shut down wait-lists, and renting single rooms is still illegal in much of the city.
“We encourage applicants to consider Rent-Geared-to-Income housing as a long-term housing plan, not an immediate solution to housing needs or emergency situations,” the city warns online. There are a few priority tracks that can speed things along, for groups such as youth, survivors of domestic violence, those facing homelessness or with less than two years to live.
Earlier this year, council directed staff to develop a “centralized system” for selecting tenants, which includes determining any priority rules. By its second year, city staff say 75 per cent of affordable rentals will be allocated from a wait-list, and 25 per cent through a random draw. to form for affordable rentals under the new system — as city staff confirmed some households may wind up on the affordable rental and subsidized housing wait-lists at the same time.
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