200 Dora Spencer Rd
Toronto, Ontario M6M
A 9-storey, 125-unit social housing building built in 1992.
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Issues & maintenance
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City bylaw and health cases
7 bylaw investigations and 1 public health case at this address since Jun 2025.
A case starts with a complaint or an officer’s visit, so it is not a finding against the building. In a condo, a complaint about one unit is filed under the building’s address.
- Repairs and upkeep 5
- Indoor air quality 1
- Long grass and weeds 1
- Not enough heat 1
- Aug 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 213114 PRS 00 IR
- Aug 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 213100 PRS 00 IR
- Jun 2026
Not enough heatBylaw· Closed
Case 26 173566 000 00 IR
- Jun 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 173565 000 00 IR
- May 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 158012 PRS 00 IR
- Feb 2026
Indoor air qualityPublic health· Under Investigation
Case 10869194
Show 2 older cases
- Feb 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 120346 PRS 00 IR
- Jun 2025
Long grass and weedsBylaw· Closed
Case 25 177550 LGW 00 IR
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City building permits
3 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Parking garage repair 2
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Mar 2021
Parking garage repair · Garage Repair/Reconstruction · Closed
Proposal to remove existing mastic traffic topping, repair deteriorated concrete, installation of new mastic traffic topping on P1 level of parking garage. Work also includes like for like drain replacement where needed.
Permit 21 133735 BLD · est. $510,000
- Jan 2019
Parking garage repair · Garage Repair/Reconstruction · Cancelled
Proposed localized repairs to garage roof slab in the apartment building
Permit 19 105241 BLD · est. $50,000
- Jan 2010
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed - Dormant
To install one backflow prevention device.
Permit 10 102729 PSA · est. $6,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
42/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit35
26.9 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 6 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Mount Dennis (5 Eglinton Line), 1.5 km.
- Parks & trees96
56.5 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 160 m. 326 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling42
Within 1 km: 0.15 km of protected lanes, 3.5 km of bike lanes and trails, 0.65 km of shared routes. 2 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby14
3 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: York Humber High School , 370 m). Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities9
Within 1 km: 0 libraries, 0 community centres, 8 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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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Mount Dennis
- AssaultAbout typical
Higher than 65 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.2× the city median).
- Break and enterAbout typical
Lower than 53 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- RobberyAbout typical
Lower than 53 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Higher than 54 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAbout typical
Higher than 50 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Lower than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (79% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftLower than most
Lower than 83 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (49% of the city median).
- ShootingsAmong the highest
Higher than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.7× the city median).
- HomicideAbout typical
Higher 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
No expressway within 2 km
141 tonnes a year from 1 facility, mostly Irving Consumer Products
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
- Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Service, 9.1 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
Residential Apartment
- Category
- Apartment
- Zone label
RA (x445)- Height limit
- 24 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
- 2
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
4 Edmund Ave · 280 m away
Site plan · Final Approval Completed · submitted 2022-01-27
Proposed development for an 8 storey affordable housing residential building at 1550 Weston Road, containing a total of 50 residential uses and amenity spaces. Severed via consent application.
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.
| Bedrooms | Mount Dennis | York zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | - | $1,381 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,634 | $1,706 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | - | $2,067 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $2,547 | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,875* | $1,864 | $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.
93 / 100City inspection score, August 2026. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Social housing
- Storeys
- 9
- Units
- 125
- Built
- 1992
- Elevators
- 2
- Heating
- Electric
- Air conditioning
- Individual units
- Laundry
- Main floor, 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Underground garage, garage accessible thru buildg
- Visitor parking
- Paid
- Bike parking
- 4 indoor, 4 outdoor
- Amenities
- Indoor recreation room, indoor exercise room, child play area
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- Yes
- Ward
- 5
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