Work

This year, we began a new partnership with Infrastructure Ontario to establish a vision for Healthcare-Oriented Communities (HOCs) around hospital lands. HOCs are holistic communities centred around healthcare, where high-quality health services, housing, jobs, and amenities are highly accessible to residents. They catalyze complete communities through the hospital as an economic driver that stimulates and supports the community. Additionally, a successful HOC maximizes the value of public assets by unlocking lands towards the delivery of critical social infrastructures and to increase housing options, including long-term care homes.

The scope of work includes a jurisdictional scan on HOC models and examples already present and subsequently inform the formation of design guidelines. The guidelines take into consideration the needs for a diverse population, including a diverse range of supportive housing, and geographic implications, whereby urban, suburban, and rural HOCs adopt different approaches.

Please check this page regularly to see the HOC guidelines when they are ready for public viewing.