FACT SHEET

Ministry of Finance

PROVINCIAL SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL & AFFORDABLE HOUSING June 27, 2013 Provincial Support for Social and Affordable Housing Ontario has been generous in its support to the City of Toronto. The Ontario government has invested more funding in affordable housing than any government before us. Since 2003, the province has provided almost $1 billion to the City in support of social and affordable housing. o This $1 billion includes investments in the creation of affordable rental housing units; repairs and improvements to social and affordable housing units; and providing rental and down-payment assistance. The Province continues to urge municipalities, other provinces and territories to join Ontario in asking the federal government to commit to permanent, flexible funding for housing.

Ongoing Support for the City By 2016, total ongoing support will total almost $800 million, or a 700 per cent increase since 2003. Toronto will also benefit from the forgiveness of the $230 million Toronto Loan as well as other provincial investments. The net benefit of the TPC phase-down, loan forgiveness, uploads and other ongoing support will increase by $110 million between 2013 and 2016. The estimated total benefit of the provincial uploads as of 2013 for the City of Toronto is almost $364 million annually. o Ontario Drug Benefit Upload: over $47 million. o Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) Administration Upload: over $19 million. o ODSP Benefits Upload: over $171 million. o Ontario Works (OW) Benefits Upload: over $54 million. o OW Administration: $58 million. o Court Security and Prisoner Transportation: over $13 million. The cumulative benefit of the uploads to the City of Toronto since 2008 is over $1.2 billion.
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Other sources of ongoing support to the City include provincial gas tax funding as well as public health and land ambulance funding.

Infrastructure Funding Support for the City of Toronto The province has also provided or committed over $10.6 billion in infrastructure funding to the city since 2003. o This includes an $8.4 billion contribution to the revised Toronto transit plan.

Toronto does not have uniquely high social housing costs When municipal social housing costs are compared to their property tax base more than half of the municipalities that are responsible for social housing costs have higher relative costs compared to Toronto. o As property taxes are municipalities most significant own-source revenues, comparing net municipal social housing expenditures against their property tax base is the most appropriate measurement of ability to fund social housing. Other municipalities have seen their equivalent provincial funding phased-out as the uploads of social assistance benefit program costs have been implemented. o For example, Hamilton, London and Ottawa have all seen the social programs grants they previously received through the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund phased-out as the uploads were implemented. o The OMPF Social Program Grants will phased-out for all municipalities by 2016 as agreed to through the Provincial-Municipal Fiscal and Service Delivery Review.

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