Homes First Society - Housing and Support Services

Affordable and stable housing and support services addressing chronic homelessness, including individual apartments, rooming house facilities with shared decision making, and accessible units

• focus on individuals with fewest options, dealing with issues such as addiction and mental illness
• assists people in transitioning from homelessness to temporary shelter and/or to permanent housing

Housing Residences:
Bellevue House

• 28 unit apartment building for low income singles able to live independently, refugee claimants accepted

Brandon House

• capacity 5 - rooming house for low income single young men able to live independently, refugee claimants accepted

Huron House

• capacity 10 - rooming house for low income single men able to live independently, who have been chronically homeless and have mental health and/or addiction issues

Jarvis House

• capacity 24 - 4 men per apartment, including 2 accessible apartments priority to men referred by Seaton House Residence

Meegwetch Place

• 50 unit apartment building and 14 townhouses for low income singles and families

Northcote House

• capacity 6 - rooming house for low income single young men able to live independently, refugee claimants accepted

Pleasant Manor

• 16 bachelor and one bedroom apartments, for low income single men or women

Sheila Miller House

• 22 unit apartment building for single adults and single parents with children

Shuter House

• capacity 77 - 17 apartments with 4-5 private bedrooms in cooperative environment, including 1 accessible unit and staff support; for older low income single men or women able to live independently and experiencing mental health, addiction or aging issues

Spadina House
Rooming houses for low income singles able to live independently, refugee claimants accepted

• 140 Spadina Rd, capacity 7 men
• 164 Spadina Rd, capacity 6 women

Operates shelter spaces (see separate listings), contact Central Intake at 416-338-4766, 1-877-338-3398, or 311

Services and Programs:

• Bathurst-Lake Shore Shelter
• All Saints Housing
• Kennedy Road Shelter for Women
• Lawrence Avenue Shelter
• Placer Court Shelter
• Willowdale Shelter, Building A