Social Procurement and Sustainability Action Framework

The Social Procurement and Sustainability Action Framework is an outcome-oriented action plan to manage and improve the Land Trusts affordable housing portfolio in a manner that will produce important community benefits including community economic development, decent work, increased sustainability and climate resilience. We believe the Land Trust’s goal to preserve safe, secure and adequate affordable housing should be considered together with the broader collective aim of supporting economic democracy, racial and climate justice.

The Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (PNLT) and its charitable arm, The Neighbourhood Land Trust (NLT), collectively referred to in this report as the Land Trust, has reached a transformative moment in its organizational history as a rapidly growing community land trust (CLT). Over the past nine years, the Land Trust has mobilized to bring 84 properties under communityownership, with a total of 204 units of affordable rental housing. The Land Trust’s portfolio now includes the urban agricultural hub at 87 Milky Way, 1 formerly atrisk 15 unit rooming house, 1 formerly at-risk 36 unit apartment building, and a scattered social housing portfolio of 81 single family homes and small buildings across the west end of Toronto, recently acquired from Toronto Community Housing Corporation.

This expanded portfolio will require ongoing repairs and improvements to ensure all homes are maintained in a state of good repair (SOGR) for tenants. For the Scatter Home Portfolio in particular, the Land Trust is uniquely positioned with a fully budgeted, five-year capital repair and improvement plan to lead a necessary investment of more than $22M.

Through investments such as this, the Land Trust has a unique opportunity to improve the living conditions for tenants within its permanently affordable homes while simultaneously producing important community benefits including community economic development, decent work, increased sustainability and climate resilience.

The Social Procurement and Sustainability Action Framework is an outcome-oriented action framework for achieving these interconnected community benefits, through the intentional management of the Land Trust’s 84 property portfolio of community-owned assets. The framework builds on the Land Trust’s Strategic Plan (2021) to provide specific strategies, data and metrics, targets, and outcomes in four key impact areas. These include:

Impact Area 1: Community economic development

Inclusive economic opportunities for local community members, businesses and social enterprises

Impact Area 2: Decent Work

Low-barrier income-generating employment opportunities for community members

Impact Area 3: Environmentally responsible buildings

A sustainable approach to the construction, renovation, repair and management of properties

Impact Area 4: Community climate resilience

Communities are safe and protected from extreme weather and other climate impacts, and benefit from climate solutions

Funding Partners:

• Metcalf Foundation
• JP Morgan Chase Foundation
• Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation