Resources
If you, or someone you know, is struggling with the costs of daily life and is behind in rent, there is help
Toronto 211 is a help line and website which provides information about social services available in the GTA. The 211 help line is attended 24 hours a day and is free and confidential.
Toronto 311 provides easy access to non-emergency City services.
Below you will find some helpful links to services or organizations that the OCHE has connected tenants with in the past:
Client Supports
General
The Hub: Community Hubs of Toronto
City of Toronto Human Services
Variety Village
Warden Woods
Health/Dental Care
City of Toronto - Free Dental Care
Local Health Integration Network
CannTrust Access
Affordable Food Options
The Good Food Box
Daily Bread Food Bank
Discounted Internet for TCHC Tenants
Veterans
Veterans Affairs (VA) / The Royal Canadian Legion
Financial Resources
Get help managing your finances
Voluntary Trustee – Evangel Hall
Voluntary Trustee – Neighbourhood Information Post
Credit Counselling
Apply for income
Ontario Works (OW)
Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
Canada Child Benefit (CCB)
Trillium Drug Program (TDP)
Canada Pension Plan (CPP)
Old Age Security (OAS)
Get help paying off your arrears (owed rent)
Housing Stabilization Fund (HSF)
Rent Bank PDF
Hydro/Electricity
The Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP)
The Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP)
City of Toronto's Emergency Energy Fund
Legal
Need free legal advice?
Community Legal Clinics
Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
Have a complaint about a City or Provincial service?
Toronto Ombudsman
Ontario Ombudsman
Need information about your rights as a tenant?
Community Legal Education Ontario
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
Advocacy Center for the Elderly