280 Gerrard St E
Toronto, Ontario M5A
A 3-storey, 26-unit social housing building built in 1991.
- Property manager
- Yonge Street Mission
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Issues & maintenance
Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.
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City bylaw and health cases
1 bylaw investigation at this address since Nov 2024.
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.
- Garbage 1
- Nov 2024
GarbageBylaw· Closed
Case 24 242604 WST 00 IR
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Bylaw investigation activity (open cases, and those closed in the last two years) and residential health hazards.
City building permits
4 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Fire and life safety 2
- Heating, cooling and ventilation 1
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Dec 2011
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Building Permit Related(MS) · Permit Issued
HVAC - permit to install solar wall on East elevation of North building (3 stories) and Solar Duct system on roof of South building - Multi residential building.
Permit 11 291282 HVA
- May 2011
Fire and life safety · Fire Alarm · Closed
Proposal to upgrade the fire alarm system. Tenant is Yonge Street Mission. See aslo 10 311463 FSU. Convenience address is 270-280 Gerrard St E.
Permit 11 194519 FSU · est. $5,000
- Dec 2010
Fire and life safety · Other(FS) · Closed
Proposal to relocated fire alarm panel in basement and replace annunciator in ground floor lobby. Tenant is Yonge Street Mission.
Permit 10 311463 FSU · est. $14,000
- May 2009
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed
install 2' double check valve back flow preventer for premise insolation
Permit 09 140117 PSA · est. $1,600
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
71/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit55
46 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 5 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: College (1 Yonge-University Line), 1.2 km.
- Parks & trees60
16.3 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 50 m. 452 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling94
Within 1 km: 7.85 km of protected lanes, 4.05 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.4 km of shared routes. 8 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby93
11 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Lord Dufferin Jr & Sr Public School, 200 m), plus 8 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities98
Within 1 km: 2 libraries, 5 community centres, 20 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety40
4 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
Moss Park
- AssaultAmong the highest
Higher than 97 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.4× the city median).
- Break and enterAmong the highest
Higher than 93 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.3× the city median).
- RobberyAmong the highest
Higher than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.6× the city median).
- Auto theftAmong the lowest
Lower than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (48% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesHigher than most
Higher than 88 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Higher than most
Higher than 85 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.7× the city median).
- Bicycle theftAmong the highest
Higher than 95 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (7.2× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Lower than 75 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (64% of the city median).
- HomicideHigher than most
Higher than 81 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× 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
Don Valley Parkway, 990 m away
None reported
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, 440 m
- Sites within 1 km
- 1
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 1.5 (c1.0; r1.0) SS2 (x2604)- 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
- 11
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
306 Gerrard St E · 130 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2026-05-26
Site Plan Approval for an 11-storey mixed-use building containing 228 market and affordable residential units, plus office and community program space.
City record213 Gerrard St E · 270 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2025-07-04
Site Plan Approval for a 10-storey mixed use building with 60 purpose-built rental units and commercial uses at grade.
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 | Moss Park/Regent Park | Toronto (Central) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,278* | $1,606 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,987 | $2,042 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $2,484 | $2,776 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $3,580* | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,904 | $2,163 | $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.
90 / 100City inspection score, November 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Social housing
- Storeys
- 3
- Units
- 26
- Built
- 1991
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- Yonge Street Mission
- Heating
- Forced air gas
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Basement, 24 HOURS
- Pets
- Allowed - by law requirements
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Amenities
- Indoor recreation room, outdoor rec facilities, indoor exercise room
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- No
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 13
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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