Research-Driven. Community-Focused.

For over 20 years, TWC has helped communities across Ontario understand their housing challenges and build the plans to address them. Our policy research is geographically specific, practically focused, and written for the people who will use it.

TWC – Policy Services Block

Our services

We work with municipalities and non-profit organizations to produce housing policy that is well-researched, community-specific, and ready to be acted on.

Housing Strategies & Action Plans

Long-term policy frameworks that set affordable housing targets, and clear pathways for municipalities and organizations.

TWC has a strong track record developing long-term Housing Strategies and Plans for both upper and lower tier municipalities. Our plans integrate data on housing supply and demand, population vulnerability, and service capacity to chart a clear course toward housing stability for all residents.

We facilitate meaningful engagement processes that bring together community voices alongside institutional knowledge, resulting in plans that are both evidence-based and locally owned

Recent project types

Housing and Homelessness Plan
10-Year Affordable Housing Strategy
Housing Action Plans

Community Improvement Plans

Comprehensive frameworks that enable incentives for various types of housing to be built and maintained.

Our Community Improvement Plans (CIPs) help municipalities use targeted policy tools to stimulate housing investment, improve aging housing stock, and support mixed-income, complete communities.

For all our projects, we facilitate meaningful engagement processes to learn from community voices and ensure that policy is evidence-based and locally owned.

Recent project types

Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan
Downtown Area Community Improvement Plan

Housing Needs Assessments

Data-rich studies that establish current and projected housing needs to form the evidence base for long-term planning.

Our housing needs assessments provide municipalities and organizations with a clear, defensible picture of who needs housing, what types are needed, and where gaps exist. We draw on census data, housing market analysis, demographic projections, and key informant interviews to build a complete, community-specific evidence base.

The report provides recommendations and targets to support the client in their policymaking. Reports are written in accessible language, while rigorous enough to support funding applications and policy decisions.

Recent project types

County Housing Needs Assessments
City Housing Needs Assessments
Housing supply and demand gap analysis

Organizational reviews & End of Mortgage Preparedness

Operational and portfolio reviews that guide recommendations for long-term organizational sustainability.

TWC conducts organizational reviews that help housing providers assess their governance, operations, and service delivery to identify opportunities for improve efficiency, increased accountability, and long-term sustainable growth.

We work with organizations accross Canada to support sustainable growth.

Recent project types