Affordable housing refers to shelters where the total monthly shelter cost is situated at or even below the average market rent by unit type, i.e. houses and apartments. (Toronto City Government, 2019) Ranked as the second most expensive city with the least affordable housing, the high demands of affordable housings in Toronto is one of the trickiest and most complicated social issues in the community. From 2005-2015, the apartment rents of a bedroom increased by 20%, whereas the Toronto median household income only increased by 5%. Moreover, Toronto provides 90% of the public housing in the Greater Toronto Area and 37% of the total social housing in Ontario, such that these figures are far beyond the shares of population and the tax base. Social housing has been funded by all three levels of government, (federal, provincial and municipal), through various programs. (Toronto City Government, 2019) However, the decrease of funding from the federal and provincial governments started in 2007 and it has been predicted to decrease annually until 2032, as it has been placing significant pressure on the city’s budget (Toronto City Government, 2019). As a result, this leads to increasing demand for affordable housing. Therefore, the current housing system is struggling to meet the growing demand, especially due to the severe income inequality that has been continuously growing in the city.

          It is also important to note that if the situation will not be improved in the future, a citizen of Toronto, on average, would still need to wait for 10-12 years for an affordable house, as the average housing waitlist includes approximately 97,000 active households.

          In this situation, we aim to propose and locate new potential building sites for affordable housing sites in Toronto and the analyses we are planning on doing in this project are:

1. To suggest the potential locations to build new affordable houses in Toronto.

2. To present the relevant criteria’s level of importance for building affordable houses in Toronto, which is not well-documented.

3. To evaluate the reliability and consistency of the results, and to also assess the reasonability and practicability of the results.