3179 Yonge St
Toronto, Ontario M4N
A 5-storey, 110-unit Toronto Community Housing building built in 1990.
- Property manager
- Toronto Community Housing Corporation
Reviews
No reviews yet
If you live here, or used to, you know things a listing never mentions.
Issues & maintenance
Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.
Sign in to report a problem or maintenance work here.
City bylaw and health cases
5 bylaw investigations at this address since Feb 2025; 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 5
- Oct 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Rescheduled
Case 26 248040 PRS 00 IR
- Sep 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 234566 PRS 00 IR
- Jul 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 205843 PRS 00 IR
- Jan 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 100648 PRS 00 IR
- Feb 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 25 114342 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
7 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Heating, cooling and ventilation 3
- Alterations 2
- Fire and life safety 1
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Mar 2021
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Permit Issued
Localized concrete repairs and waterproofing application at slab topside of grade level storage room
Permit 21 124819 BLD · est. $30,000
- Jul 2019
Fire and life safety · Fire Alarm · Closed
Proposal to replace the fire alarm panel and voice communication system and modifications to existing system (End of line resistors, additional supervisory valves, fire pump running and generator monitor points.)
Permit 19 182999 FSU · est. $110,000
- Jan 2019
Alterations · Other(BA) · Inspection
proposal for exterior uplifting which includes localize brick repairs, replacement of railing on balconies and roof membrane for existing retirement building.
Permit 19 104594 BLD · est. $971,900
- Dec 2018
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed
New premise isolation backflow preventer installation.
Permit 18 269500 PSA
- May 2016
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Alter: Boiler/Furnace/AC Replacement · Closed
Proposal to replace heating and hot water boilers in existing apartment building.
Permit 16 149633 MSA · est. $350,000
- Apr 2016
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Alter: Boiler/Furnace/AC Replacement · Permit Issued
a/c system retrofit
Permit 16 134681 MSA · est. $165,000
Show 1 older permit
- Oct 2015
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Other(MS) · Closed
Replacement of two existing MUA with new more efficeient make up air unit on roof
Permit 15 244109 MSA
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
53/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit90
67.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 8 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Lawrence (1 Yonge-University Line), 160 m.
- Parks & trees34
9.5 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 230 m. 475 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling19
Within 1 km: 0 km of protected lanes, 0.25 km of bike lanes and trails, 4.45 km of shared routes. 2 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby37
4 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Bedford Park Public School, 150 m), plus 1 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities53
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 11 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety40
4 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025. Fewer scores higher.
What matters to you?
Change how much each category counts. The score above updates as you go; nothing is saved.
Map
Turn layers on and off to see what is around the building.
About 1.2 km around the building. Select anything on the map for details. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Also worth knowing
Shown for context. None of this is part of the living score.
Safety
Lawrence Park North
- AssaultAmong the lowest
Lower than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (42% of the city median).
- Break and enterAbout typical
Higher than 62 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.1× the city median).
- RobberyLower than most
Lower than 78 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (61% of the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Higher than 58 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.1× the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAbout typical
Lower than 69 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (87% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Lower than 57 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (88% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Lower than 60 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (86% of 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
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
- Casey House Inpatient Supervised Consumption Services, 6.8 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 3.0 (c2.0; r2.5) SS2 (x2443)- Height limit
- 16 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
- 8
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
49 Lawrence Ave E · 280 m away
Rezoning · OMB Appeal · submitted 2023-03-03
Proposed 9-storey mid-rise residential building, consisting of a total 5,755 sq. m. GFA and 4.13 FSI. The proposed development consists of 40 units, including 4 one bedroom units, 30 two bedroom units and 6 three bedroom units. Two levles u
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 | Lawrence Park North | Toronto (North) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,407 | $1,570 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,726 | $1,892 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | - | $2,476 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $2,985 | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,713 | $2,057 | $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. 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, December 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Toronto Community Housing
- Storeys
- 5
- Units
- 110
- Built
- 1990
- Elevators
- 2
- Managed by
- Toronto Community Housing Corporation
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- On site
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Underground garage, garage accessible thru buildg, surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Both
- Amenities
- Indoor recreation room
- Balconies
- Yes
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 15
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
Discussion
Sign in to join the discussion.
No questions yet. Ask the first one.