{"id":831115,"date":"2026-07-28T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:38:09","slug":"with-a-funding-cliff-ahead-toronto-community-housing-commits-to-improving-its-repair-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831115\/","title":{"rendered":"With a funding cliff ahead, Toronto Community Housing commits to improving its repair process"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With a critical stream of federal funding set to run dry in 2027, Toronto Community Housing has been handed a roadmap to tighten up how it prioritizes and organizes its building repairs going forward.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new report from the city’s auditor general lays out a long to-do list for the social housing provider to make its repair work more efficient as it faces the potential loss of half of its capital repair budget.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the housing agency’s president and CEO Sean Baird confirmed he had accepted all 10 of the recommendations laid out in a new report from Toronto Auditor General Tara Anderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given the looming funding cliff, the auditor general\u2019s report describes the importance of making sure money is \u201ceffectively prioritized to meet the most critical needs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [report] underscores the scale and challenge that TCHC faces in managing a large, ageing portfolio,\u201d Baird said, adding that better planning for repairs of the social housing provider\u2019s 1300 buildings is \u201cessential.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 10 recommendations fall into three categories: better tracking and reporting of what needs to be done, a more transparent prioritization process for projects and improved data collection.<\/p>\n

The recommendations come just months before a federal funding commitment<\/a>, which at present makes up more than half of the agency’s annual building capital repair budget, is set to expire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Between 2026 and 2035, the agency anticipates $4.5 billion in required investments. At present, it has just $1.5 billion in planned funding \u2014 which could push as many as 54 per cent of the housing provider\u2019s portfolio into critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AG recommends shoring up tracking, data<\/p>\n

Over the course of a half-hour presentation to the agency’s board of directors on Monday, Anderson and her deputy auditor general, Ina Chan, described a number of examples of disorganized or poorly documented systems for planning out repairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reasons for reprioritizing or deferring projects are not always well-documented, including why higher priority needs are not always addressed first,\u201d Chan said at one point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At another point, she described inconsistencies in when staff drew from a funding pot earmarked for emergencies, sometimes using it to pay for planned or non-urgent work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Baird says the suggestions laid out by the auditor general track well with internal priorities already identified by the agency when it comes to making its repair work more efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also told the housing provider\u2019s board of directors that TCHC is actively pushing for stable new funding sources from all levels of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout continued federal support after 2027, the [repair] backlog will grow, and building conditions will deteriorate very quickly,\u201d said Baird.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a comprehensive advocacy plan,\u201d said Baird. \u201cWe will marshal every piece of evidence we can find to try and make [our] case.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The federal and provincial governments did not respond to question about plans to address the 2027 funding gap by publication time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-831115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}