TREB’s 2009-2010 president Tom Lebour with Habitat for Humanity partner family the Matins at the ground-breaking event.

The Toronto Real Estate Board and Habitat for Humanity Toronto have again teamed up to provide modest housing for local families who currently have substandard living conditions. TREB is sponsoring one of 29 town home units to be built in September at 4572 Kingston Rd., near Morningside Avenue. Providing homes for 145 men, women and children, this site represents the 225th affordable home built by Habitat for Humanity Toronto.

At the build’s groundbreaking ceremonies recently, TREB 2009/2010 president Tom Lebour met with the partner family who were selected by Habitat for Humanity Toronto.  Merajuddin Matin said how much he, his wife and four children are looking forward to the completion of their new home.

“Right now our life is very difficult,” he says. “We’re six people living in a small, two-bedroom apartment.”

The build represents the fourth title sponsorship of seven builds to which TREB has contributed. Other TREB-sponsored homes were constructed in the King Street and Jameson Avenue area in 1999, in Scarborough’s McLevin Woods in 2004 and in Lakeshore Village in 2006.