Stable, affordable housing built by and for Toronto's healthcare workers since 1992.
Hospital Workers’ Housing Co-operative is a member-owned, not-for-profit housing community committed to providing stable, affordable homes for Toronto’s healthcare workers and their families. Our 10-storey building at 100 Merton Street is home to 132 households — a diverse, multi-generational community in the heart of Mount Pleasant West.
We’re more than a place to live. As a co-operative, we are neighbours who govern ourselves, look out for one another, and share in the responsibility of caring for our home. Together, we’ve built a community defined by connection, stability, and the simple belief that everyone deserves a secure place to call home.
In 1992, a group of healthcare workers from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) came together with a shared goal: to create stable, affordable housing for hospital staff who were facing the steep cost of living in downtown Toronto. Out of that vision, Hospital Workers’ Housing Co-operative was incorporated.
Located at 100 Merton Street in Mount Pleasant West, our building was designed to put frontline healthcare families within a short commute of the city’s major hospitals along University Avenue. Operating as a non-profit, democratically run community — in connection with the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto — we’ve spent more than three decades growing into the close-knit, multi-generational home we are today.
Over the years, our members have invested in the things that make a community thrive: energy-efficient building upgrades, a resident-built playground, and dedicated accessible housing in partnership with local agencies. As we mark our 30th anniversary in 2026, we continue to honour the founding belief that brought us together — that everyone deserves a secure, welcoming place to call home.
Non-profit housing charges that stay stable and cost-based over time.
Residents govern the co-op together, with decisions made by and for the membership.
Inclusive, fully accessible units in partnership with GAGE Transition to Independent Living, plus priority housing for those fleeing domestic violence.
A major Toronto Atmospheric Fund retrofit upgraded energy efficiency across all 132 units, lowering long-term utility costs.
For years, an empty rear lot sat where the original playground had fallen into disrepair — prompting neighbourhood children to chalk outlines on the pavement to mark where they wished to play.
In response, our community launched the resident-led Play4All – Merton Project. On Truth and Reconciliation Day in October 2023, the non-profit KABOOM! and Foresters Financial partnered with the co-op, and dozens of volunteers built a brand-new 2,250-square-foot multi-generational playground in a single day — complete with a climbing wall, dual slides, and interactive music panels.
Our office team is happy to help with membership, applications, and general inquiries.
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