295 Shuter St
Toronto, Ontario M5A
A 16-storey, 300-unit Toronto Community Housing building built in 1964.
- Property manager
- Toronto Community Housing Corporation
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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
4 bylaw investigations and 1 public health case at this address since Oct 2024; 1 still open.
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 4
- Bedbugs 1
- Aug 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Rescheduled
Case 26 213030 PRS 00 IR
- Apr 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 143819 PRS 00 IR
- Oct 2025
BedbugsPublic health· Under Investigation
Case 10861593
- Oct 2024
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 24 231631 PRS 00 IR
- Oct 2024
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 24 224623 PRS 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
6 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 2
- Alterations 1
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Aug 2022
Alterations · Other(BA) · Closed
PROPOSAL FOR INTERIOR & EXTERIOR REPAIRS FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE CONCRETE ROOF OF THE EXISTING HYDRO VAULT, LOCATED AT & BELOW GRADE.
Permit 22 192367 BLD
- Dec 2018
Fire and life safety · Electromagnetic Locks · Cancelled
Proposed 2 electromagnetic locks at ground level.
Permit 18 265013 FSU · est. $5,000
- May 2018
Heating, cooling and ventilation · HVAC: Other Group C Buildings · Closed
Installation of 250 kW CHeP System
Permit 18 156663 MSA
- Dec 2016
Fire and life safety · Other(FS) · Closed
Applicant proposed to remove and replace the existing fire alarm panel with a new fire alarm panel.
Permit 16 260577 FSU · est. $10,000
- Dec 2010
Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Closed
Plumbing - Interior alteration to the Penthouse level area to provide accessible access to the area and a retrofit of the ground floor washroom.. This proposal also includes the revamping of seven (7) accessible parking spots for the build…
Permit 10 319703 PLB
- Dec 2010
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Building Permit Related(MS) · Closed - Dormant
HVAC - Interior alteration to the Penthouse level area to provide accessible access to the area and a retrofit of the ground floor washroom.. This proposal also includes the revamping of seven (7) accessible parking spots for the building…
Permit 10 319703 HVA
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
66/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit72
68.9 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 8 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Queen (1 Yonge-University Line), 1.2 km.
- Parks & trees36
10.3 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 220 m. 439 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling99
Within 1 km: 10.45 km of protected lanes, 3.2 km of bike lanes and trails, 0.2 km of shared routes. 10 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby79
9 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: St Paul Catholic Elementary School, 320 m), plus 2 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities98
Within 1 km: 2 libraries, 5 community centres, 18 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety3
11 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 4 fatal. 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, 920 m away
598 kg a year from 2 facilities, mostly Downtown Acura
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
Residential
- Category
- General residential
- Zone label
R (d2.0) (x898)- Height limit
- 11 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
- 24
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
134 Parliament St · 260 m away
Site plan · OMB Appeal · submitted 2023-08-14
Site Plan Application for a 46 storey (156.3 metres including mechanical penthouse) mixed-use building with 419 dwelling units and 328 square metres of 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.
85 / 100City inspection score, June 2024. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Toronto Community Housing
- Storeys
- 16
- Units
- 300
- Built
- 1964
- Elevators
- 3
- Managed by
- TCH
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- 14th floor, 7:00 AM- 10:00 PM
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Paid
- Amenities
- Indoor recreation room
- Balconies
- Yes
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 13
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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