Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on February 15, 2018

Bnai Brith Canadas Affordable Housing Program

As an outgrowth of its ongoing historic commitment to serve the needs of the community, Bnai Brith Canada established an Affordable Housing Program in 1979. Its mission is to provide and maintain affordable, attractive, secure, and welcoming housing to low to moderate income residents. These residents now enjoy a decent home in a friendly community free from discrimination.

In Metropolitan Toronto, theBnai Brith Canada Family Housing Programhas provided and currently operates two senior citizens housing complexes on Bathurst Street, facing Earl Bales Park as well as a third project for seniors and families.

Each of these projects is an independent corporation, with its own Board of Directors, Committees and professional staff. At the same time, each project has access to and is able to benefit from the experience and services of the larger framework and resources of Bnai Brith Canada.

Our Other Buildings

Montreal

Bnai Brith House, 8000 Cote St. Luc Road, Montreal, Quebec - This 95 one and two bedroom residence is located in a much sought after area of Montreal at the corner of Cote St. Luc Road and Westminster. A hot, nutritious, kosher, well-balanced and affordable lunch meal is provided daily to the residents.

Toronto

The Dan Family Residence, 15 Torresdale, North York, Ontario - This 61-unit seniors and family residence is Bnai Brith Canadas first fully integrated facility providing housing for all segments of the community.

Bnai Brith Upper Canada Lodge Apartment, 4226 Bathurst Street, North York, Ontario - Comprised of 130 one and two bedroom air-conditioned units, this facility was the first building sponsored by Bnai Brith Canada Upper Canada Lodge.

Bnai Brith Seniors' Residence, 4300 Bathurst Street, North York, Ontario - This 164-unit one and two bedroom air-conditioned apartment building is directly north of our first building.

Through a combination of our lodges volunteer service program and the resident social committee, various events take place on a regular basis: summer picnics and barbecues, evenings with guest speakers, weekly bingo nights, weekly exercise programs, movie nights, card games, holiday celebrations, and religious services on Shabbat and all holidays.

Bnai Brith International

Bnai Brith Canada, while corporately distinct, is part of Bnai Brith International, which is the largest Jewish sponsor of federally subsidized housing for the elderly in the United States. For more than 30 years, in a cooperative partnership with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bnai Brith has made rental apartments available for senior citizens with limited incomes. Bnai Brith senior housing is open to all qualified individuals as defined by HUD, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, handicap, or national origin.

The Bnai Brith Senior Housing Network in the United States consists of 37 apartment buildings in 25 communities, encompassing more than 4,000 apartment units and serving more than 6,000 people.

Bnai Brith has also developed a variety of housing alternatives around the globe. The organization sponsors parents homes in Australia, New Zealand, and Israel; senior citizens flatlets in England; an apartment building and a medical residence in Vancouver, British Columbia; and apartment buildings in Toronto. Although funded through their own national programs and tailored to meet the particular needs of the host country, these programs remain a vital component of the international Bnai Brith Senior Housing Network.

Local Bnai Brith volunteers and the senior service staff in the national office plan and complete all Bnai Brith senior housing projects.

For more information on Bnai Brith Internationals Housing network, please consult theirwebsite.

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