AFFORDABLES
This is the term for City-administered RGI units in Affordable projects.
What is Commercial Rent Supplements (CRS)?
This legislation was replaced by the Housing Services Act in 2011.
What is the Social Housing Reform Act?
This online platform is used for searching, applying for, and managing rentals.
What is RENT Cafe?
This Yardi-based reporting tool is currently being piloted for housing providers.
What is HAPPTO?
This team member is an artist and has one dog.
Who is Sarah?
Often (and incorrectly) referred to as the Affordable Housing Access System (AHAS), this is the correct name for the future centralized access system for affordable rental housing
What is the Centralized Affordable Rental Housing Access System?
This term is used under the HSA for events that signal a situation where a housing provider may be failing to meet their obligations or facing serious issues that could jeopardize their operations. This may lead to the Service Manager requesting an action plan to address the situation.
This is a Latin phrase meaning “in place” or “on site.”
What is in situ?
What is End of Operating Agreement (EOA)?
This team member always has something to say.
Who is Robert?
This is what the acronym "MURA" stands for.
What is Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program?
This wealth management firm partners with Encasa Financial, and manages investments for non-profit and affordable housing providers.
What is Worldsource Financial Management?
When added to the Centralized Waiting List due to becoming over-housed, this is the number of wards a household must select for where they are willing to move.
What is 5?
This is the year that the 'Affordable Housing Office' became the Housing Secretariat.
What is 2021?
This person has a twin.
Who is Patricia?
What is supportive housing?
As outlined in a City guideline, this mandates housing providers to share 50% of their yearly operating profits with the City of Toronto.
What is surplus sharing?
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Before Housing Connections was replaced with Access to Housing, this was the database used to manage the centralized waiting list for RGI housing.
What is the Toronto Applicant Waiting List (TAWL)?
This funding stream, commonly known by the acronym is SDL, allows housing providers or community agencies to provide support services that enable people with special needs to live independently within the community.
What is Supports for Daily Living?
This person has been travelling the world, and also has a skeleton in their attic.
This is the eligible income limit for Affordable Housing units.
What is 4x the rental amount?
What is the maximum percentage of RGI units a housing provider can have in a Section 103 building?
What is 75%?
This document serves as a legal record of the delivery of a Notice of Decision – Loss of Eligibility; it is not delivered to the household but should be retained in the household’s file.
What is a Certificate of Service (COS)?
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This term is used to describe a situation where a guest has moved into a tenant's unit, and the presence of the guest either puts the tenancy at risk or makes it an unsafe or inaccessible environment for the tenant to live in.
What is a HUT (hostile unit takeover or housing unit takeover)?
This person has season tickets to TFC games (but is often looking to give them away!)