Sean Baird

As President and CEO of Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) – Canada’s largest social housing provider and developer – Sean Baird leads the stewardship of 60,000 affordable homes for over 100,000 residents living across Toronto. At a time when the city is facing an unprecedented housing crisis, Sean guides TCHC’s evolving role: preserving aging housing infrastructure, building new affordable communities, and working with the social services sector and all levels of government to connect tenants to the support they need to succeed. This session will present the findings of a groundbreaking research study that explores the macroeconomic and social impacts of retrofitting and constructing social housing. Using advanced agent-based modeling, the study offers one of the most comprehensive analyses of social housing to date, bringing together insights from government, housing, development, and finance sectors. Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of multiple investment scenarios modele