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Ontario Housing Corp. Ltd. will ask the North York Planning Board today for permision to build a socially integrated, public housing project beside Yo(...)
Ontario Housing Corp. Ltd. will ask the North York Planning Board today for permision to build a socially integrated, public housing project beside Yo(...)

Ontario Housing Corp. Ltd. will ask the North York Planning Board today for permision to build a socially integrated, public housing project beside Yo(...)

Date1/12/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ontario Housing Corp. Ltd. will ask the North York Planning Board today for permision to build a socially integrated; public housing project beside York Unversity. It will feature a 900-foot pedestrian mall; a five-acre wood and a minimal number of streets. When completed; the project will contain 579 public housing units; 200 units for elderly persons; 606 privately-owned units and a central core containing two churches; a community centre; small shops; high-rise apartments and junior and public schools.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0113560F
Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
12/30/1968
'A human housing project'. The Toronto Housing Corporation residential project in Riverdale is hard to find and familiar to relatively few Torontonians
'A human housing project'. The Toronto Housing Corporation residential project in Riverdale is hard to find and familiar to relatively few Torontonians
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Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
11/20/1968
Interior of a house in the Peregrine Watch housing project. Cambridge, Ontario
Interior of a house in the Peregrine Watch housing project. Cambridge, Ontario
8/8/1991
The jungle is the name given the Lawrence Heights Ontario Housing Corp
The jungle is the name given the Lawrence Heights Ontario Housing Corp
10/14/1975
Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
11/20/1968
Buy a house or rent an apartment? It's a question many families ask themselves, the answer lies wholly in the size of the family income. Housing offic(...)
Buy a house or rent an apartment? It's a question many families ask themselves, the answer lies wholly in the size of the family income. Housing offic(...)
12/30/1966
The model of a 520-suite, $3,500,000 housing project for persons over 60 years of age is studied by Ontario Economics Minister Stanley Randall (left) (...)
The model of a 520-suite, $3,500,000 housing project for persons over 60 years of age is studied by Ontario Economics Minister Stanley Randall (left) (...)
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Workmen in front of Toronto housing project on Bain Avenue, Art Durnan (bottom right). Toronto, Ont.
Workmen in front of Toronto housing project on Bain Avenue, Art Durnan (bottom right). Toronto, Ont.
1914
Co-directors Diana Jardine and David Butt (foreground) look over plans for their project, called Autonomous Housing, that will house 15 Metro families(...)
Co-directors Diana Jardine and David Butt (foreground) look over plans for their project, called Autonomous Housing, that will house 15 Metro families(...)
10/30/1977
Disenchantment with large-scale public housing and concern for preserving neighborhoods have shaped Toronto's new concern with housing policy. [Incomplete]
Disenchantment with large-scale public housing and concern for preserving neighborhoods have shaped Toronto's new concern with housing policy. [Incomplete]
11/1/1973
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Housing - Public - Regent Park
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Housing - Public - Regent Park
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