{"id":10476,"date":"2025-12-20T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluedoor.ca\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:12:37","slug":"york-region-grants-30-2m-to-build-288-affordable-housing-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluedoor.ca\/york-region-grants-30-2m-to-build-288-affordable-housing-units\/","title":{"rendered":"York Region grants $30.2M to build 288 affordable housing units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Posted On: December 20, 2025, Posted By: Joseph Quigley, NewmarketToday, Original Article. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

York Region is providing more than $30.2 million in funding across five non-profit housing providers to help them build more than 288 affordable units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding, provided through the region\u2019s Community Housing Supply Grant program, aims to help non-profit providers launch new housing developments. The 2025 grant recipients include Trinity Coptic Foundation (Newmarket), Markham Inter-Church Committee for Affordable Housing, Sandgate Women\u2019s Shelter of York Region, Crescent Village Seniors Housing Corporation, and the Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto. Each is developing a different project in York Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newmarket Mayor and Housing York chair John Taylor said the challenge is great with homelessness still rising, but the progress that this funding represents is exciting. He said that while Housing York can do good work, there is a need for outside partners to build affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t do this without you,\u201d Taylor said to those non-profit partners. \u201c2026 is going to be an exciting year and I really feel the momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grant was first piloted in 2023, with $10.2 million being granted, split between Blue Door building 14 stack townhomes in Newmarket and Richmond Hill Ecumenical Homes Corporation building 90 new housing units. The grant expanded in 2025 with more dedicated funding and will now be a regular grant annually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regional staff said that this year\u2019s five grant recipients were informed they would receive the funding in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, the five organizations will be building 536 units, with 288 guaranteed as affordable through the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trinity Coptic Foundation board member Nabil Gouda said the organization has had significant support from the municipality to deal with development challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe challenge we had was the funding and this grant will help us overcome this challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organization\u2019s proposal that came before council in 2023 was for more than 200 units<\/a>, with 60 being affordable, through a development planned at 17175 Yonge St. That project is working through a site planning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe basis of what we do revolves around helping those in need,\u201d Father James Daif with the foundation said. \u201cIt\u2019s very important we take our faith outside of just our buildings and into the community, so that\u2019s why we\u2019re very passionate about this project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

York Region chair and CEO Eric Jolliffe said more support is also needed from upper levels of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, he said, \u201cWhat gives me confidence is the strength of our partnerships and the shared commitment from all sectors to make meaningful progress. Today, we are bringing more housing. We\u2019re building more opportunity, choice and a stronger future for our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue Door chief operating officer Emmy Kelly said the funding they previously received from the grant helped them make significant improvements to the housing on their property on Gorham Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we do not create community housing, we are forcing decisions like encampments and other precarious living in our community,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople share a clear belief that homelessness should be rare, brief and not recurring. And getting there requires more than short-term fixes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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