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Building Review

1480 Queen St E

Toronto, Ontario M4L

A 4-storey, 25-unit social housing building built in 1990.

Living score
57/100
Built
1990
Units
25
Storeys
4
City inspection
97/100

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Issues & maintenance

Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.

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City building permits

1 permit the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.

  • Plumbing and drains 1
  • Jan 2010

    Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed

    Permit for backflow valve in existing rental apartment building

    Permit 10 107446 PSA · est. $1,500

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Cleared permits and active permits. Contractors are named only on permits filed since 2017.

From City of Toronto open data

Neighbourhood

Living score

57/ 100

Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.

  • Transit34

    26 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 4 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Greenwood (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 2.0 km.

  • Parks & trees82

    32.3 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 60 m. 314 street trees within 300 m.

  • Cycling83

    Within 1 km: 2.25 km of protected lanes, 7.35 km of bike lanes and trails, 0.3 km of shared routes. 2 Bike Share stations within 500 m.

  • Schools nearby41

    4 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Duke Of Connaught Jr & Sr Public School, 100 m), plus 2 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.

  • Daily amenities74

    Within 1 km: 1 library, 2 community centres, 11 licensed child care centres.

  • Road safety51

    3 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025. Fewer scores higher.

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Safety

Greenwood-Coxwell

  • AssaultAbout typical

    Higher than 62 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.2× the city median).

  • Break and enterAbout typical

    Lower than 51 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).

  • RobberyAbout typical

    Lower than 66 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (73% of the city median).

  • Auto theftAbout typical

    Lower than 65 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (85% of the city median).

  • Theft from vehiclesAbout typical

    Higher than 73 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.2× the city median).

  • Theft over $5,000Among the lowest

    Lower than 93 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (54% of the city median).

  • Bicycle theftHigher than most

    Higher than 81 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.0× the city median).

  • ShootingsAbout typical

    Higher than 58 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.1× the city median).

  • HomicideAbout typical

    Lower than 52 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).

How often police recorded each crime for every resident of the whole neighbourhood, averaged over 2023–2025. Places many people visit but few live in, like downtown, rank high for that reason alone, so this is not part of the living score.

Air

Traffic pollutionLow

No expressway within 2 km

Industrial releases within 1 kmModerate

432 kg a year from 1 facility, mostly M S Auto Refinishing

Bands: traffic is high within 150 m of an expressway and moderate within 500 m; industrial is moderate under a tonne a year and high above. The industrial bands are ours, for orientation only: ChemTRAC totals mix substances of very different toxicity. Releases are self-reported to the City’s ChemTRAC program. For today’s readings see Air Quality Ontario.

Supervised consumption services

Nearest site
Street Health, 4.0 km
Sites within 1 km
0

Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.

Zoning

Commercial Residential

Category
Mixed use
Zone label
CR 2.0 (c0.5; r2.0) SS2 (x1572)
Height limit
12 m

Zoning By-law 569-2013, from City of Toronto open data. Exceptions (“x” numbers) and site-specific amendments can change what is allowed; check the City’s zoning map before relying on it.

Nearby change

Open planning applications within 300 m
5
Registered short-term rentals at this address
0
  • 1594 Queen St E · 290 m away

    Rezoning · Under Review · submitted 2022-10-25

    Rezoning for proposed 6-storey mixed-use building with 181 m² of non-residential gross floor area at grade and 30 residential units above (2,526 m² residential gfa).

    City record
  • 1763 Dundas St E · 260 m away

    Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2022-05-11

    Rezoning for proposed for a 4-storey residential building having a gross floor area of 1412 square metres consisting of 26 residential units, 2 parking space, and 28 bicycle parking spaces.

    City record

Rezonings, site plans and subdivisions submitted in the last five years and still open.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Data as of 2026-10-03. Transit from TTC weekday schedules; parks, trees, cycling, schools, libraries, community centres, child care, collisions, crime, expressways, ChemTRAC releases, planning applications and short-term rental registrations from open.toronto.ca; Bike Share stations from Bike Share Toronto; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada.

From CMHC and the City of Toronto

Rent

Average rents nearby

Monthly rent in purpose-built rental apartments, October 2025.

Average monthly rent by bedroom type
BedroomsWoodbine Corridor/Greenwood-CoxwellToronto (East) zoneToronto region
Studio$1,525$1,213$1,491
1 bed$1,702*$1,692$1,761
2 beds$1,907$1,869$2,045
3+ beds-$1,876*$2,294
All units$1,746$1,685$1,917

Averages over every unit, including long tenancies under rent control, so they run below what a new lease costs today. Condominium units rented out by their owners are not included. “-” means too few units were surveyed to publish; * marks an estimate CMHC rates poor. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

Rent reductions after property-tax cuts

When a rental property’s tax falls by more than 2.49%, Ontario law cuts its rents by a matching share, and the City writes to the tenants.

The City’s lists for 2014–2025 have no rent-reduction notices for this address.

Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.

Building facts

From the City of Toronto’s RentSafeTO registry, as reported by the landlord (registered 2017). Not resident reviews.

97 / 100City inspection score, October 2025. How buildings are scored

Type
Social housing
Storeys
4
Units
25
Built
1990
Elevators
0
Heating
Electric
Air conditioning
Individual units
Laundry
By common room, 24/7
Pets
Allowed
Parking
Ground level garage
Visitor parking
Free
Amenities
Indoor recreation room
Balconies
No
Smoke-free building
No
Sprinklers
Yes
Cooling room
No
Ward
14

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.

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