Toronto and the GTA face a growing housing crisis, with an urgent need for affordable, “missing middle” density. Non-market housing providers are ready to step up, but limited access to flexible financing often stalls their progress.
In this free webinar led by Tapestry Community Capital and Kensington Market Community Land Trust (KMCLT), you’ll discover how community bonds and community land trusts are transforming the funding landscape. Learn how these innovative tools enable organizations to secure funding, acquire properties, and deliver much-needed affordable housing.
What You’ll Learn:
- Understand how community bonds and land trusts can deliver real, scalable housing solutions.
- Learn from Tapestry Community Capital and Kensington Market Community Land Trust (KMCLT) as they share a live case study of KMCLT’s current community bond campaign.
- Discover practical ways to apply these tools to your organization or community.
Why You Should Attend:
- Learn a powerful, proven financing strategy for affordable housing.
- See how innovative solutions are creating density in Toronto and beyond.
- Engage directly with experts and gain ideas you can act on.
- Suzanne Faiza, Knowledge Lead, Tapestry Community Capital
- Zack Bradley, Co-Director, Kensington Market Community Land Trust
Tapestry Community Capital is a non-profit cooperative with the mission to democratize access to capital and investment via community bonds. We provide consulting services to organizations, in particular non-profits, charities and cooperatives, who want to raise community bonds. To date, we have facilitated the raise and management of $120M+ from 3,000+ community investors.
Kensington Market Community Land Trust is a community based nonprofit corporation, in 2017. We own and directly operate a mixed-use building with 12 residential units at a wide range of affordability. We have hundreds of members, over 50% of whom either work or live in Kensington Market. In 2022, we were announced as a recipient of the Canadian Housing and Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s National Demonstrations Project featuring land assembly and community land trust (CLT) solutions for affordable housing provision across Canada.