{"id":1038,"date":"2026-01-21T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/dunn-house-expansion-innovative-housing-model-gets-green-light\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:37","slug":"dunn-house-expansion-innovative-housing-model-gets-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/dunn-house-expansion-innovative-housing-model-gets-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunn House Expansion: Innovative Housing Model Gets Green Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto’s innovative Dunn House project, which provides supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals and reduces hospital costs, is expanding. A second Dunn House, funded by federal and provincial governments, will add 54 units, prioritizing seniors. Preliminary data from the first Dunn House shows significant savings to the healthcare system, including over $400,000 in avoided ER visits and $1.65 million in hospital bed day savings annually. This expansion highlights a proactive approach to addressing homelessness and its impact on healthcare. The project uses modular construction and aims to begin construction this year. Read more about this impactful initiative on The Star’s website.<\/p>\n

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Dunn House, a supportive housing project slashing hospital costs, is expanding! A new facility will offer 54 units for seniors, building on the success of the innovative model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[210,182,508,470,507,207],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-residential","tag-affordable-housing","tag-gta","tag-healthcare","tag-homelessness","tag-supportive-housing","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}