Housing Secretariat

active 10-year plan, progress reports through 2024-25

Current this library's internal records: HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan (2030)

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• Backgrounder: on file
• Strategy-evolution brief: on file
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Document shelf (7 rows)

Backgrounder

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Housing Secretariat - backgrounder

Backgrounder / 2026-07-30 / registry row: tor-housing-secretariat (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

The Housing Secretariat is a City of Toronto division, not itself created by a dedicated statute; its authority derives from the City's general powers under the City of Toronto Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 11, Sched. A. Section 7 gives the City "the capacity, rights, powers and privileges of a natural person," and s.8(1)-(2) authorizes the City to "provide any service or thing that the City considers necessary or desirable for the public" and to pass by-laws respecting the "economic, social and environmental well-being of the City" and "health, safety and well-being of persons" (consolidated text verified at https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c11, ss.7-8). Specific divisions such as the Housing Secretariat are established administratively by City Council/City Manager organizational decisions rather than by their own statutory provision (registry row tor-housing-secretariat).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

The Secretariat's stated mandate is to "enhance the well-being of Toronto's residents, neighbourhoods, economy and environment by delivering funding, incentives, and developing innovative housing solutions" (https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/city-administration/staff-directory-divisions-and-customer-service/housing-secretariat/). It administers federal, provincial and City investment in affordable housing, builds partnerships with housing organizations, develops housing strategy and policy, and advises City leadership on housing matters (same source). Its flagship program is the HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan, a 10-year affordable housing strategy (https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/94f0-housing-to-2020-2030-action-plan-housing-secretariat.pdf; registry row tor-housing-secretariat).

Governance & reporting line

The Housing Secretariat is one of the City's Development and Growth divisions, reporting through the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services (registry row tor-housing-secretariat, parent_org tor-deputy-city-manager-development-growth-services; https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/city-administration/staff-directory-divisions-and-customer-service/housing-secretariat/, which lists Doug Rollins as Executive Director). As a City division it is ultimately accountable to City Council under the general municipal-governance framework of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, s.8(2)1 (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c11).

Budget scale

Budget scale: ⚠️ not yet confirmed against an original source. The Secretariat's own materials reference a "record-level of investment" in affordable housing without quantifying an amount (https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/city-administration/staff-directory-divisions-and-customer-service/housing-secretariat/).

Institutional history

The Housing Secretariat administers the HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan, an active 10-year plan with progress reports through 2024-25 (registry row tor-housing-secretariat; https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/94f0-housing-to-2020-2030-action-plan-housing-secretariat.pdf). ⚠️ still being checked - the specific year the Housing Secretariat was created as a distinct division (and any predecessor division/name) was not confirmed from a primary source this review.

Strategy evolution brief

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Housing Secretariat - strategy evolution

2026-08-01 / registry: tor-housing-secretariat / grounded in archived copies (cited document id + sha256) / read through our research file for that body

TL;DR: The biggest priority added across this 2021-2025 series is the expanded 65,000 rent-controlled-homes target adopted by Council in November 2023, the first time the City tracked net-new RGI and market rent-controlled homes as explicit targets alongside affordable rental. The biggest quietly-narrowed item is Inclusionary Zoning, built through a multi-year technical process culminating in 2021 Council adoption but reported by 2023 as one of several tools "negatively impacted" by the province's Bill 23. The most load-bearing number is the HousingTO Plan's total 10-year cost estimate, which grew from $27.7 billion (2021) to $44.4-47 billion (2024-2025) across all three orders of government. One open question the record cannot resolve: why the City's reported cumulative HousingTO Plan commitment fell from ~$7.5 billion (2024 report) to ~$6.4 billion (2025 report), a roughly $1.1 billion gap neither document explains.

Backgrounder summary

The Housing Secretariat is a City of Toronto division with no dedicated founding statute; its authority derives from the City's general powers under the City of Toronto Act, 2006 (ss.7-8) to provide services and pass by-laws for the "economic, social and environmental well-being" and "health, safety and well-being" of the City. It is established administratively by City Council/City Manager decision rather than by its own statute. Its stated mandate is to administer federal, provincial and City investment in affordable housing, build partnerships, develop housing this library's internal records, and advise City leadership on housing; its flagship program is the HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan. It reports through the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services. The backgrounder flags budget scale and the Secretariat's founding year/predecessor as ⚠️ still being checked, not grounded in that pass.

Series inventory

Seven documents, all extracted successfully (no archive failures in this registry cohort). Three are the core HousingTO/Housing Action Plan annual progress-update series; four are one-off "other" documents (a provincially-mandated policy peer review, an Auditor General report, and two Council/Executive Committee items on mandate restructuring).

Note on ordering: the index's year field reflects fiscal/reporting year, not publication date. This brief orders documents by actual report/publication date: oth-2021 (Aug 17, 2021) precedes sr-2021 (Nov 10, 2021); within 2023, oth-2023 (June 21, 2023) precedes ar-2023 (Sept 14, 2023) precedes oth-2023-2 (Nov 21, 2023).

Priority evolution

Aug 17, 2021 (oth-2021, 9990a8db2e9d): Economic & Planning Systems Inc. (EPS) delivers a peer review of NBLC's financial-impact analysis of a proposed Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) policy, commissioned to satisfy Ontario Regulation 232/18's requirement for "an independent written opinion" on IZ financial impact analysis. EPS finds NBLC's methodology (residual-land-value modeling across 11 submarkets, tested against a "base case RLV with IZ must be at least 10% greater than as-is RLV" viability threshold) generally sound but recommends more transparent documentation of inputs/assumptions, sensitivity analysis, and clearer phasing/exemption guidance. NBLC's findings indicated up to 10% IZ set-asides were likely absorbable in condominium projects, up to 20% in stronger markets, while purpose-built rental became largely unviable beyond a 5% set-aside (9990a8db2e9d). This technical process fed directly into Council's IZ policy adoption later that year.

Nov 10, 2021 (sr-2021, 7856b5e1cdbb): First annual HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan ("HousingTO Plan") progress update in this series. The City's Senior Leadership Team confirms the Housing Secretariat as "the City's housing lead" and formally consolidates housing accountabilities — social housing, affordable rental, supportive housing, market rental, and affordable home ownership — within the Secretariat, along with a new mandate to develop "systems-wide policy for the entire housing continuum ranging from homelessness to home ownership." City Council had adopted the IZ policy, a new income-based affordable-housing definition, a Multi-Unit Residential Acquisitions (MURA) program, and a plan co-developed with Miziwe Biik Development Corporation to approve 5,200 "for Indigenous by Indigenous" homes by 2030. Total 10-year plan cost estimate: $27.7 billion across all three orders of government (City ~$11.5B, federal ~$8.6B, provincial ~$7.6B), up from an original $23.4 billion estimate (7856b5e1cdbb).

June 21, 2023 (oth-2023, 6c9f7539394a): Auditor General report on the Housing Secretariat-overseen Modular Housing Initiative (launched April 2020 as a COVID-19 emergency response, target 250 units, original Council-approved budget $47.5 million at $190,000/unit). The Secretariat later revised the unit count to 275, producing an adjusted budget of $52.3 million; actual/forecast costs ran $33 million (63%) over that adjusted budget, "expected to increase further." Only 159 of a planned 275 units across 5 locations were complete at audit time. The report cites gaps in pre-budget site planning, weak cost tracking across fragmented financial accounts, and inconsistent change-order review, issuing 20 recommendations (6c9f7539394a).

Sept 14, 2023 (ar-2023, f644f9db9034): Second annual progress update. Total plan cost estimate rises to $33.2 billion (City ~$14.6B, federal ~$10B, provincial ~$8.6B). Council increases the affordable-homes target (Sept 2023, Item EX7.2) by a minimum of 7,500 additional affordable homes (2,500 RGI) and adds a new 17,500-unit rent-controlled homes target. The report identifies provincial Bill 23 (More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022) as having eliminated an estimated $1.2 billion in development-charge revenue over 10 years and as having "negatively impacted" the City's Open Door program, Section 37 density bonusing, and Inclusionary Zoning — the same IZ policy tool built on the 2021 NBLC/EPS analysis. Toronto becomes the first Canadian municipality to establish a Deputy Ombudsman, Housing Unit (appointed July 2023) and a Housing Rights Advisory Committee (terms of reference, March 2023). A new Toronto Housing Data Hub launches (March 2023). The report also details a major RGI/affordable-rental access-system overhaul mandated by the provincial Housing Services Act, 2020 — new income limits ($49,500-$79,500), asset limits (raised to $150,000 after a first annual review), a Single Offer Rule, and progress toward a "one-window" MyAccesstoHousingTO portal covering both RGI and affordable rental (f644f9db9034).

Nov 21, 2023 (oth-2023-2, 98895637a83f): Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services (DGS) reports "Generational Transformation of Toronto's Housing System." Following Council's Sept 2023 EX7.2 direction, Council (Item EX9.3, Nov 8-9, 2023) raises the HousingTO Plan's new-supply target to 65,000 rent-controlled homes — a minimum 41,000 affordable rental, 6,500 RGI, and 17,500 rent-controlled market homes — described as "the first time that the City has set an intentional target to create and track the delivery of net new RGI and rent-controlled market rental homes, in addition to affordable rental homes." The report formalizes DGS as a "recently established" service area comprising City Planning, Toronto Building, the Housing Secretariat, and a new Development Review division. It defines the Housing Secretariat's mandate in the most granular terms found in this series: development of the City's overall housing strategic plan; oversight/administration of homes owned by TCHC and non-profits; systems-level housing policy; administration of federal/provincial/City housing investment including the City's 10-Year housing capital plan; and "service system management" — funding and oversight of 280 housing providers, 92,000 social and affordable homes, over 10,000 housing benefits, and community-agency grants. Council amends TCHC's Shareholder Direction (s.4.1.2(c)) to authorize TCHC to prioritize net new RGI/affordable/market rent-controlled homes (not only RGI replacement) and requests CreateTO's board to do likewise (98895637a83f).

Sept 12, 2024 (ar-2024, 58356db9d0ec): Third annual update, now formally combined with the 2022-2026 Housing Action Plan per Council's EX9.3 direction. Total plan cost estimate jumps to $44.4-47 billion ($31.6-33B in contributions/funding, $12.8-14B in repayable loans/financing) — the costing basis established by EX9.3. Commitments to date: City ~$7.5B, federal ~$2.9B, provincial ~$1.4B. New federal/provincial funding instruments appear for the first time in this series: a $471 million federal Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) allocation (Dec 2023); a $114 million provincial Building Faster Fund (BFF) commitment (Feb 2024, tied to the City exceeding its 2023 provincial housing-start target by 51%); and the Ontario-Toronto New Deal Agreement (adopted Dec 2023). The report seeks authority for a Memorandum of Understanding with Parc Downsview Park Inc. (a Canada Lands Company subsidiary) to deliver ~2,560 affordable rental homes in the Downsview Secondary Plan area — the first appearance of this major public-land partnership. A new "Rental Housing Supply Program (RHSP)" is announced as being established, alongside a Community Housing Sector Modernization and Growth Strategy and the City's first Renovictions By-law (in development) (58356db9d0ec).

Oct 17, 2025 (ar-2025, 908765212df1): Fourth annual update. Cost estimate unchanged at $44.4-47 billion, but the funding mix shifts: City commitments-to-date recorded as ~$6.4B (down from ~$7.5B in ar-2024, unexplained in the text — see Residuals), federal ~$4.0B, provincial ~$1.9B. RHSP is now "launched" with a 30%-of-GFA affordable-rental requirement and an Indigenous set-aside ($10M capital + $3M Community Housing Pre-Development Fund loan funding) toward the 5,200 "for Indigenous by Indigenous" target first announced in 2021 — but the report discloses that "no applications from Indigenous housing providers were received" through the initial call, prompting a co-designed process redesign with Miziwe Biik Development Corporation and the Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle. A new "Housing Development Office" appears, named as organizational lead for a new "Toronto Builds Policy Framework" governing housing development on public land. The federal government launches Build Canada Homes (BCH, Sept 14, 2025) with an initial $13 billion investment, including a $1.5 billion Canada Rental Protection Fund; BCH will "incubate" under Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada before becoming a standalone entity in 2026, absorbing Canada Lands Company. A $2.55 billion CMHC low-cost financing agreement-in-principle (March 2025), part of a larger $7.3 billion portfolio, is secured for Toronto rental housing. The Rental Renovation Licence By-law comes into effect. City Council directs a review of the "original functions of a Housing Commissioner" as set out in the Dec 2019 PH11.5 decision, with the Secretariat, Housing Rights Advisory Committee and Deputy Ombudsman, Housing described as jointly fulfilling an oversight role in 2025 rather than a standalone Commissioner position (908765212df1).

Priorities added, dropped, renamed

• Added — consolidated systems-wide housing mandate: absent as an explicit consolidation in oth-2021; first stated in sr-2021 (7856b5e1cdbb, "the City's Senior Leadership Team confirmed the Housing Secretariat as the City's housing lead"), then formalized organizationally within the new DGS service area in oth-2023-2 (98895637a83f).
• Added — rights-based accountability infrastructure: Deputy Ombudsman, Housing and Housing Rights Advisory Committee both first appear in ar-2023 (f644f9db9034); by ar-2025 (908765212df1) these bodies are described as absorbing oversight functions originally intended for a distinct "Housing Commissioner" role directed in Dec 2019 (PH11.5) — that Commissioner position does not appear as an established, named office anywhere in this archived series. ⚠️ still being checked whether a Housing Commissioner was ever formally appointed.
• Added — combined HousingTO Plan / Housing Action Plan reporting: sr-2021 and ar-2023 report on the HousingTO Plan alone; ar-2024 (58356db9d0ec) and ar-2025 (908765212df1) report on both plans jointly, per Council's Nov 2023 EX9.3 direction.
• Added — net new RGI and market rent-controlled homes as tracked targets: prior to Nov 2023, City targets were framed only around "affordable rental" approvals (40,000 in the original HousingTO Plan); oth-2023-2 (98895637a83f) states this was "the first time" RGI and rent-controlled market homes were tracked as explicit net-new targets, within the expanded 65,000-home target.
• Added — RHSP (Rental Housing Supply Program): announced as being established in ar-2024 (58356db9d0ec); operating with a 30%-of-GFA affordable requirement and an Indigenous set-aside by ar-2025 (908765212df1).
• Added — Housing Development Office: not present in any document through ar-2024; appears already operating as organizational lead of the "Toronto Builds Policy Framework" in ar-2025 (908765212df1), with no dedicated establishment document in this series. ⚠️ still being checked exact creation date.
• Added — large public-land partnership model (Downsview): first appears ar-2024 (58356db9d0ec, Parc Downsview Park Inc. MOU for ~2,560 affordable homes); by ar-2025 (908765212df1) folded into the Downsview Secondary Plan, described as accommodating ~63,000 homes over a 30-year build-out.
• Renamed — "Renovictions Policy" to "Rental Renovation Licence By-law": flagged as a policy still in development in ar-2023 (f644f9db9034, adopted July 2022, implementation report due Q4 2023-Q1 2024); reported as adopted and in effect by ar-2025 (908765212df1).
• Quietly narrowed — Inclusionary Zoning's practical reach: built through a multi-year technical process (NBLC 2018-2021 analysis, EPS peer review oth-2021, 9990a8db2e9d, Council adoption 2021) but reported by ar-2023 (f644f9db9034) as one of several tools "negatively impacted" by provincial Bill 23 — no report in this series states IZ was repealed, but none reports it as functioning at full originally-modeled scope after 2022.
• Leadership — Executive Director transition: Abigail ("Abi") Bond signs as Executive Director, Housing Secretariat in sr-2021 (7856b5e1cdbb), ar-2023 (f644f9db9034), and ar-2024 (58356db9d0ec); Doug Rollins — listed as "Director, Housing Stability Services" in ar-2023 (f644f9db9034) — signs as Executive Director in ar-2025 (908765212df1). ⚠️ still being checked the exact transition date; it is bracketed only by the Sept 2024 and Oct 2025 report dates in this series.

Budget & mandate inflection points

• Dec 2019 (PH11.5) — City Council adopts the HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan and directs the City Manager to establish a Housing Commissioner role in 2020 (cited retrospectively in sr-2021, 7856b5e1cdbb, and again in ar-2025, 908765212df1).
• 2021 — Senior Leadership Team consolidates housing accountabilities (social, affordable rental, supportive, market rental, home ownership) into the Housing Secretariat as "the City's housing lead" (sr-2021, 7856b5e1cdbb).
• Aug 2021 — EPS peer review of NBLC's IZ financial-impact analysis satisfies the O.Reg 232/18 independent-opinion requirement, clearing the way for Council's IZ policy adoption later that year (oth-2021, 9990a8db2e9d).
• April 2020 - June 2023 — Modular Housing Initiative runs $33M (63%) over its adjusted $52.3M budget; Auditor General issues 20 recommendations on cost/contract management (oth-2023, 6c9f7539394a).
• Sept 2023 (EX7.2) — Council directs an additional 25,000 rent-controlled-home target and a review of housing-mandate alignment across City agencies (cited in ar-2023, f644f9db9034, and oth-2023-2, 98895637a83f).
• Nov 2023 (EX9.3) — Council raises the HousingTO Plan target to 65,000 rent-controlled homes and re-costs the plan to $44.4-47 billion; amends TCHC's Shareholder Direction to authorize net-new (not just replacement) housing delivery; formalizes the DGS service area (oth-2023-2, 98895637a83f; costing figure carried into ar-2024, 58356db9d0ec, and ar-2025, 908765212df1).
• Dec 2023 — Ontario-Toronto New Deal Agreement adopted; federal Housing Accelerator Fund ($471M) allocation received (ar-2024, 58356db9d0ec).
• Feb 2024 — Province commits $114M to the City via the Building Faster Fund after the City exceeded its 2023 provincial housing-start target by 51% (ar-2024, 58356db9d0ec); a second BFF installment of $67.2M follows in June 2025 (ar-2025, 908765212df1).
• March 2025 — Agreement-in-principle with the federal government unlocks $2.55B in CMHC low-cost financing as part of a $7.3B rental-housing financing portfolio for Toronto (ar-2025, 908765212df1).
• Sept 14, 2025 — Federal government launches Build Canada Homes with an initial $13B investment, to incubate under Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada before becoming a standalone entity in 2026 and absorbing Canada Lands Company (ar-2025, 908765212df1).
• Dec 2024 (EC17.1) — Council directs a review of the "original functions of a Housing Commissioner" from the 2019 PH11.5 decision, five years after that role was first directed to be established (ar-2025, 908765212df1).

Ontario/Toronto relevance

This series concerns a City of Toronto division; every document in it is directly about Toronto operations, so relevance is inherent rather than inferred. What the series demonstrates is a persistently contested and shifting provincial-municipal relationship layered on top of that direct operational role. Provincial legislation repeatedly reshapes what the Secretariat can do: the Planning Act framework (O.Reg 232/18, O.Reg 300/19) required the independent NBLC/EPS peer review before Toronto's Inclusionary Zoning policy could proceed (oth-2021, 9990a8db2e9d); the Housing Services Act, 2020 forced a redesign of RGI/affordable-rental eligibility and access systems (ar-2023, f644f9db9034); and Bill 23 (More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022), layered on Bill 108 (2019) and Bill 109 (2022), is reported as having stripped an estimated $1.2 billion in development-charge revenue over 10 years and weakened the City's Open Door, Section 37, and Inclusionary Zoning tools (ar-2023, f644f9db9034). At the same time, the Province functions as a major funder and partner — the Building Faster Fund (ar-2024, 58356db9d0ec; ar-2025, 908765212df1), the Ontario-Toronto New Deal Agreement (ar-2024; ar-2025), the Homelessness Prevention Program, and Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit allocations recur across the series as recurring intergovernmental funding lines the Secretariat administers and advocates to expand. The federal government's role escalates sharply late in the series, from established programs (Reaching Home, Rapid Housing Initiative, National Housing Co-Investment channels referenced in sr-2021, 7856b5e1cdbb) to the Housing Accelerator Fund (ar-2024) and, by 2025, the newly launched Build Canada Homes entity with a $13 billion initial investment (ar-2025, 908765212df1) — positioning the Secretariat as the municipal counterpart negotiating directly with a new, still-forming federal delivery agency.

Residuals & gaps

• oth-2021 (9990a8db2e9d) partially read: this is a large document (229,245 characters / 3,888 lines); this review read approximately the first 1,190 lines (Executive Summary, Key Findings, Recommendations, Introduction/Background, IZ Methodology, and the Review chapter through the "Exemptions" discussion). The unread remainder (continued Chapter 4 discussion, viability-metric figures, the Survey of Literature, and the Peer Reviewer/EPS firm-experience appendix) is technical/methodological detail; the strategic content already captured (the peer review's role in clearing the way for Council's IZ policy) is not expected to change, but this is flagged rather than assumed. ⚠️ still being checked if finer methodological detail from the unread portion is needed for a future pass.
• No archived Corporate Plan, founding/establishment record, or dedicated Secretariat operating/capital budget document is present in this series — the backgrounder's own ⚠️ still being checked items (exact founding year, predecessor division, overall budget scale) remain unresolved by this archived set. Budget figures grounded here are all HousingTO Plan-wide, three-order-of-government cost estimates and commitment tallies, not the Secretariat's own departmental budget (with the narrow exception of the $500,000 CHFT/CDSI allocation traced to Housing Secretariat 2023 Operating Budget line FH5417 in ar-2023, f644f9db9034).
• Coverage gaps: no archived document from 2020 (the year the HousingTO Plan was adopted/launched and DGS's predecessor state existed) or from calendar-year 2022 as a standalone reporting year (ar-2023 covers a combined "2022-2023" period). Nothing in the archived set post-dates ar-2025 (Oct 17, 2025).
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the City's cumulative HousingTO Plan commitment "to date" is reported as ~$7.5 billion in ar-2024 (58356db9d0ec) and ~$6.4 billion in ar-2025 (908765212df1) — an apparent decline of roughly $1.1 billion between reports that neither document explains; it may reflect a re-basing or recalculation methodology rather than an actual funding reduction, but this series does not clarify which.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: whether a Housing Commissioner (directed Dec 2019, PH11.5) was ever formally appointed; the Dec 2024 Council direction (EC17.1, cited in ar-2025) to review "the original functions of a Housing Commissioner" suggests the position was not established as originally envisioned, but no document in this series states this explicitly.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the exact date and circumstances of the Executive Director transition from Abi Bond (signatory through ar-2024, Sept 2024) to Doug Rollins (signatory in ar-2025, Oct 2025; listed as "Director, Housing Stability Services" as recently as ar-2023, f644f9db9034).
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the Housing Development Office's formal establishment date and mandate scope — it appears already operational as the organizational lead of the "Toronto Builds Policy Framework" in ar-2025 (908765212df1) with no founding document captured in this series.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: final outcome of the Indigenous set-aside redesign within RHSP/Community Housing Pre-Development Fund (reported as in-progress in ar-2025, 908765212df1, after zero applications were received under the original design) and of Build Canada Homes' transition from incubation under Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada to a standalone federal entity, targeted for 2026 but not yet observed in this archived series.