LONDON, ONT. A massive new development that will help fill the city’s housing affordability gap is taking shape in London’s SoHo neigbourhood. London city council has approved the sale of the remaining former Victoria Hospital Lands on South Street to a newly formed group of non-profit housing developers called Vision SoHo Alliance. Just over 2.5 hectares on the north side of South Street will be transformed into a mixed-use housing complex. More than 600 units in total will include 300 at affordable rates, the remainder at market rates. Affordable housing is not what it used to be said Greg Playford, of the London Community Foundation’s Housing Action Committee.
Author of the article: Norman De Bono
Publishing date: Feb 25, 2021 • February 25, 2021 • 4 minute read • Greg Playford, a member of the board of the London Community Foundation, is a driving force behind the development of the former Victoria Hospital site on South Street. The foundation is bringing together six housing agencies that will repurpose two heritage buildings on the site and build five new apartment buildings. Half of the more than 600 units that will be created will be affordable housing. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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A $150-million development on the former South Street hospital lands will include more than 300 much-needed affordable housing units to help address London’s housing crisis.