Emergency Housing

  • Turning Point Youth Services

    Turning Point Website

    Emergency Shelter is available in a 35-bed dormitory setting at our 95 Wellesley Street East location for homeless and street-involved male and transgender youth (who identify as male), ages 16 to 24.

  • Horizons For Youth

    Horizons For Youth Website

    Horizons for Youth is a shelter for at-risk and homeless youth between the ages of 16-24 years old in Toronto. We provide youth with the support they need to escape from the cycle of poverty and leave the streets behind.

  • Assaulted Women's Helpline

    Call: 1 (866) 863-0511 or Visit Assaulted Women’s Helpline

    Website Assaulted Women’s Helpline Websitesafe space, free of judgment anytime, day or night, to support, listen and guide women who have experienced any type of abuse anywhere in Ontario.

  • Canadian Centre for Men and Families

    Canadian Centre for Men and Families Website

    The Canadian Centre for Men and Families is Canada’s hub for boys, men, fathers and families. They are an open, inclusive and safe space, providing therapy and counselling, peer support, a legal clinic, fathering programs, mentorship and support services for male victims of trauma and violence.

  • Eva's

    Eva’s Website

    Eva’s YOUth Belong is an inter-dependent living program for Black youth experiencing homelessness or precarious living. The program provides Black youth leaving shelters with the lifelong skills and capacity to effectively navigate the systems that they will connect with daily, while rooting them in their communities and intersectional identities.

  • Sistering

    Sistering Website

    Sistering is a multi-service agency for women and gender diverse people who need assistance to address their basic needs through social services and wrap-around supports. We are leaders in serving women, in all their diversity, and have been in existence for over 40 years.

  • Dr. Roz' Healing Place

    Dr. Roz' Healing Place Website

    Dr. Roz’s Healing Place provides emergency crisis support and care to all those who identify as women, children and youth emerging from abusive relationships. DRHP provides access to a safe living environment conducive to healing and wellness.

  • Shelter Helpline

    Call: 416 338-4766

    The Shelter Support Hotline is your dedicated lifeline for immediate assistance and information related to emergency shelter services. Available 24/7, the hotline offers compassionate and confidential support to individuals and families facing housing crises.

Affordable Housing

  • Options for Homes

    Options for Homes Website

    Options for Homes is Canada’s largest non-profit developer of attainable ownership condominiums working exclusively on making homeownership more affordable. We believe whole-heartedly that a thriving city is one in which a diverse group of people can live, work and play.

  • Habitat for Humanity

    Habitat for Humanity Website

    Habitat for Humanity brings communities together to help families build strength, stability and independence through affordable homeownership.

  • Trillium Housing

    Trillium Housing Website

    Trillium Housing is a new initiative creating housing affordability. Trillium Housing is dedicated to investing in the development of entry level ownership housing and to providing innovative financing to enable modest-income families to own their home.

Find Your Home

  • Toronto Real Estate

    Toronto Real Estate Website

    Regularly updated with the latest listings, Toronto Real estate Board offers a comprehensive database of available properties. Our interactive map feature allows you to easily explore neighborhoods, view property locations, and find homes that meet your criteria.

  • Facebook Marketplace

    Facebook Marketplace

    Facebook Marketplace is a dynamic platform that connects users with local buying, selling, and trading opportunities. Within this marketplace, the Property Rentals section offers a user-friendly space for finding and listing rental properties.

  • Kijiji

    Kijiji

    Kijiji is a popular online platform where users can buy, sell, and trade a wide variety of items and services. The Real Estate section on Kijiji offers a comprehensive range of property listings for those looking to buy, sell, or rent homes.

  • Affordable Housing List

    Affordable Housing List Website

    East York East Toronto Family Resources (EYET) is a community-based, family support agency that has been serving and enriching the lives of thousands of individuals and families in Toronto’s east end since 1986. Families and individuals turn to us for support to find and maintain housing, access food, and other essentials of life.

  • Renting While Black

    Renting While Black Group Link

    Looking for a place to rent while being Black in Toronto can be a difficult task for some. This group was created for the racialized renter looking to connect with landlords and agents. To share housing listings/rentals owned and operated by people of colour, as well as landlords who don't discriminate and are open to rent to people of colour.

Additional Resources

  • Subsidy Housing

    Subsidy Housing Website

    Follow the link above to learn more about Financial Support for Housing programs that help individuals and families secure and maintain stable housing through rental subsidies, emergency aid, and other financial resources.

  • Furniture Bank

    Furniture Bank Website

    The Furniture Bank provides free or low-cost furniture to individuals and families in need. They offer gently used items like sofas, beds, and tables to improve living conditions for those facing financial challenges.

  • Black North Home Ownership Program

    Black North’s Website

    The BlackNorth Initiative (BNI) Homeownership Bridge Program helps working black families like yours become homeowners, empowering you to build security, stability, equity and the opportunity to make life better for yourselves, your children and generations to come.

  • Ontario Self-Employment Benefit (OSEB)

    Ontario Energy Board Website

    Support programs are available for those who need assistance with their bill payments. You need to meet certain criteria to qualify for these programs.

  • Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP)

    Hydro One Website

    The Ontario Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) pays up to $650 of the amount owing on your bill and up to $780 if your home uses electric heat.

  • Rent Bank

    The City of Toronto’s Website

    Toronto Rent Bank grants provide support to Toronto residents who are behind on their rent or need help with a rental deposit.

  • Housing Stabilization Fund

    The City of Toronto’s Website.

    The Housing Stabilization Fund (HSF) provides money for emergency housing needs to people receiving financial assistance through Ontario Works, income support through the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) in the city of Toronto or support through Emergency Assistance issued to migrants under an emergency authorization for humanitarian reasons.