Streeter

News, Views & Things To Do in Our Neighbourhoods

Home
NEWS
THINGS TO DO
VIEWS
Daily Updates in Your Community >

affordable housing

Davisville Starbucks

North Toronto Daily Updates

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, Avenue Road, bakery, Barry Sherman, bike lanes, bus, café, candy, cannabis, car crash, car thefts, carbon monoxide, child care, child pornography, COVID-19, development, dog poop, Don Valley Golf Course, fire, fire truck, Fraserwood Avenue, gun control, gunshots, hate crime, homicide, Honey Sherman, knife, Lawrence Avenue East, libraries, Little Jamaica, Loblaws, map, McSorley's Saloon and Grill, Metro, motorcyclist, Mt. Pleasant Road, North Toronto Collegiate, North Toronto Hockey Association, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, overdoses, parking permits, patios, Playa Cabana Bar Esquina, pollinator gardens, power outage, rents, Rob Oliphant, SafeTO, schools, shooting, Shoppers Drug Mart, snow clearing, Sobeys, Starbucks, Stephanie Bowman, subway, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Transit Commission, vaccinations, vaccine, Valentine's Day, vigil, Yonge Eglinton, Yonge Eglinton Centre, Yonge Street

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in North Toronto neighbourhoods.

George Street memorial header

Central Toronto Daily Updates

March 5, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff ActiveTO, affordable housing, Alexandra Park, Andrea Barrack, Annamie Paul, anti-Semitism, arson, attempted murder, automated speed enforcement, Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, Bloor Street West, break and enter, break-ins, Brian Chang, car fire, Chinatown, Christie Pits Park, Chrystia Freeland, Clinton Street Public School, closures, collision, COVID-19, COVID-19 variant, David Morris, dog poop, Dundas Street West, El Mocambo, encampment, fatality, film festival, fire, firearms, first-degree murder, Food Basics, Friends of 225 Brunswick, goat, graffiti, green plan, gun control, hate, hate crime, homelessness, Howard Street, human remains, indecent act, Jack Layton, Jessica Bell, libraries, Little Italy, Loblaws, Marci Ien, methadone, Metro, Michelle Ross, motorcyclist, New Democratic Party, noise, outdoor recreation, overdoses, Palmerston Area Residents’ Association, parking permits, patios, pedestrian, pollinator gardens, Qi Sushi, Queen's Park, ravines, Remembrance Day, RenovictionsTO, rents, retail robbery, rinks, road closures, road work, robbery, SafeTO, Santa Claus, Seaton House, second-degree murder, sexual assault, shooting, Shoppers Drug Mart, sinkhole, snow clearing, snowstorm, spitting, St. George Care Community, St. Joseph Street, stabbing, Starbucks, streetcar, subway, tenants, Terry Fox, Toronto flag, Toronto Police, Toronto Urban Design Awards, town hall, trafficking, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Valentine's Day, vehicle break-ins, waste reduction, watermain break, wheelchair, YMCA Child Development Centre, Yonge Street, Yorkville Avenue

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Central Toronto neighbourhoods.

East York Civic Centre header

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: July–December 2021

December 22, 2021January 18, 2022 Streeter staff 55 Division, affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, bike lanes, break and enter, break-ins, car fire, collision, COVID-19, Danforth Avenue, Don Valley Parkway, East York Civic Centre, East York Hockey Associatio, East York Hockey Association, fire, flooding, fraud, Greenwood Station, homicide, Jack Layton, Julie Dabrusin, knife, libraries, luring, Malcolm Kelly, Mamma's Pizza, manslaughter, medication, Michael Garron Hospital, missing man, Monarch Park, Montcrest School, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, next of kin, O'Connor Drive, Ontario Line, pedestrian, Petition, Presteign Heights Public School, pumpkin parade, rinks, Riverdale Park East, robbery, Second City, sexual assault, shooting, Shop and Vax, stabbing, Toronto Police, Toronto Public Health, Traffic Services, vaccination, Vax the Holidays, vehicle theft, Victoria Park Avenue, Wakunda Place, Wilkinson Junior Public School, Youth Leaders of East York

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

55 Division site to become affordable housing

Affordable housing development to be considered for 55 Division property

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 Rodger Burnside 55 Division, affordable housing, Dundas Street East, Housing Now, Victoria Park Station

The city may have found a new use for the site of the 55 Division police station on Carlaw Avenue after it’s relocated to Danforth Avenue.

One of buildings bought by city

City buys buildings in Summerhill, Chinatown for the vulnerable

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Rodger Burnside affordable housing, Chinatown, John Tory, Mike Layton, Spadina Avenue, St. Clare’s Multifaith Housing Society, Yonge Street

The city has bought two multi-storey buildings on busy commercial strips in Summerhill and Chinatown to turn into homes for people in need.

Church Street mural

A building of ‘new beginnings’ opens on Church Street

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 Rodger Burnside affordable housing, Church Street, homelessness, John Tory, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Toronto Community Housing Corporation, YWCA

This morning Mayor John Tory, Toronto Centre councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and other city representatives re-opened a 13-storey affordable rental building for them at 389 Church St.

Parliament St. meeting header

Community Events Meetings THINGS TO DO

Oct. 14: Discuss Parliament St. rooming house project

September 30, 2020October 13, 2020 Streeter staff affordable housing, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Parliament Street

A virtual community meeting is planned for Oct. 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. to discuss the project at 502-508 Parliament St.

Foodbank lineup

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: May-June 2020

June 30, 2020October 6, 2020 Streeter staff affordable housing, bank robbery, Bermondsey Transfer Station, break-in, CampTO, Canada Day, child care, child pornography, Dundas Street, eviction, farmers' market, food banks, garden centres, Hollandaise Diner, human trafficking, libraries, Michael Garron Hospital, Mother's Day, Pappas Grill, parks, Paula Fletcher, potholes, reopening, saliva, shooting, ShopHERE, Taste of Danforth, washrooms, yard waste

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

Beaches-Leslieville Daily Updates: May–June 2020

June 30, 2020September 8, 2020 Streeter staff Access Hubs, affordable housing, bank robbery, boat accident, body, Brad Bradford, camps, Canada Day, coronavirus, COVID-19, crash, Distantly, essential workplaces, eviction, extreme weather, farmers' market, floaty, food bank, garbage, garden centres, gunshots, homicide, John Tory, Jones Avenue, kidnapping, libraries, Main Street Terrace, map, Michael Garron Hospital, Mother's Day, Paula Fletcher, potholes, Queen Street East, real estate, reopening, sexual assault, shooting, ShopHERE, speeding, Toronto Police, trees, washrooms

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Beaches-Leslieville neighbourhoods.

Glen Road bridge

Central Toronto Daily Updates: May–June 2020

June 30, 2020November 27, 2020 Streeter staff affordable housing, bike lanes, camps, cancellations, car chase, CNE, collision, coronavirus, COVID-19, cycling, farmers' market, fire, food bank, garbage, garden centres, Glen Road, gunshots, Harbord Street, homicide, libraries, medication, mischief, Mother's Day, museums, potholes, Pride, real estate, recycling, reopening, road closure, sexual exploitation, shooting, ShopHERE, Toronto Fire Services, Toronto Police, Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library, washrooms, yard waste

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Central Toronto neighbourhoods.

Affordable housing site

Two Beaches-East York sites among six selected for affordable housing

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Rodger Burnside affordable housing, Beaches Employment and Social Services, Brad Bradford, Danforth Avenue, Danforth/Coxwell Library, Housing Now, John Tory, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Queen Street East, Sherbourne Street

Mayor John Tory yesterday announced six locations recommended for the second phase of a plan to build affordable housing.

Group sees development as opportunity to create affordable housing

September 30, 2015August 1, 2017 Shawn Star affordable housing, All IN, Andrew Thomson, Dyanoosh Youssefi, Eglinton-Lawrence, federal election, Joe Oliver, Leah Adema, Marco Mendicino

A group of midtown residents have launched a new community group that plans to tackle issues reaching beyond their neighbourhood.

Affordable housing to boost Flemingdon neighbourhood

August 16, 2010 Town Crier staff affordable housing, housing, Low income

Flemingdon Park will be home to 62 new affordable homes for low-income seniors and people with disabilities by next summer.

Our communities

Streeter News, Views and Things To Do are selected from neighbourhoods across Toronto. For local news only, see our community pages:

• The Beach

• Cabbagetown

• East Danforth

• East York

• Leslieville

• Riverdale

• Upper Beaches

This is a work in progress, and we are adding more communities and more features daily. Check back for news, views and things to do in your neighbourhood.

That was then.

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

WHAT IS STREETER?

About Us
Contact Us

Copyright © 2023 Streeter. All rights reserved.

· Log in