Mawlana Hazar Imam yesterday morning inaugurated Generations Toronto, a not-for-profit, inter-generational living space in the heart of Canada’s most populous city. Later in the day, Toronto’s Mayor Olivia Chow awarded Hazar Imam the Key to the City in recognition of the Ismaili Imamat’s decades-long service and leadership to enhance Toronto’s public life, identity and sense of community.
Generations is a community space in the fullest sense, one where people live, receive care, raise children, share meals, and grow together.
It is part affordable housing complex, part long-term care home, part health clinic, and part early childhood centre—thus responding to some of Canada's most persistent social challenges: the rising cost of elder care, a chronic shortage of affordable housing, and the rising epidemic of social isolation among seniors.
Rather than address these problems separately, the model brings them together under one roof, in this case, across a 60-acre multi-residential campus…
