The 100-Year Home: A Cross-Sector Conversation on Climate Ready Affordable Housing

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Toronto’s climate future will be shaped not only by the buildings we construct next, but by the older homes people already live in.

Join Circle Community LandTrust for a dynamic, cross-sector conversation grounded in one urgent real-world question: how do we turn aging affordable homes into climate-ready, resilient places to live without sacrificing affordability, tenant well-being, or long-term performance?

This session offers an opportunity to ask meaningful questions, and mingle over refreshments with representatives from affordable housing, energy systems, municipal building performance, and architecture professionals as we collaborate on a shared challenge.

Engage with Janice Miyagi, Manager Asset Health at Circle, Nicola Lashley, Senior Project Manager Environment, Climate and Forestry Division City of Toronto, Sneha Mandhan, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Arwa Sayyadi, Program Advisor, Community Program Performance, Planning, Conservation, & Resource Adequacy Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) as they explore what older low-rise housing can teach us about long-term stewardship, staged electrification, resilience, tenant experience, and the systems change needed to make climate-ready affordability possible at scale and in collaboration.

Grounded in Circle’s lived experience across Toronto's single family homes, this event invites participants into a collaborative discussion about what it will actually take to preserve affordable housing for the next 100 years. Moderated by: Shreya Menon, Capital Projects Coordinator, Circle

About the Host: Circle Community LandTrust is a nonprofit housing provider that was founded to protect and invest in some of the last affordable family-sized homes in Toronto. We provide deeply affordable housing to more than 600 tenant households scattered across the City’s vibrant neighbourhoods, concentrated in Scarborough and East Toronto. We believe in quality, sustainable homes, amplifying Tenant voices, and supporting community wellbeing. Circle is currently halfway though a major capital repair campaign to bring our entire portfolio into a state of good repair over five years, with renovations and retrofits that prioritize resident dignity, sustainability, and social procurement.

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