Village SoHo is an alliance formed between six non-profit housing developers to collectively and expediently address London’s housing crisis by creating beautifully designed, environmentally friendly, and well-managed buildings. These developments will range in affordability—some being market rate and others at affordable and deeply affordable rates—and will offer a variety of unit types catering to single individuals, couples as well as families. Over 680 units will be created in total. The focus area for the development is the Old Victoria Hospital Lands. The Village SoHo Alliance closed on the land in the fall 2022, and began construction in 2023.
Indwell is a founding member of the Village SoHo Alliance. We will create and operate 138 units of deeply affordable housing with supports in two heritage buildings.
Indwell is eager to take on restoring the two heritage buildings on the site: the Health Services Building and the War Memorial Children’s Hospital. They are beautiful buildings with important and rich ties to our city’s history. The two buildings will be retrofitted to create 138 new apartments, 96 at the Health Services Building and 42 at the Children’s Hospital. The Health Services Building will include a community space in the Auditorium offering food security and other amenities to the entire development and SoHo neighbourhood.
In 2023, we celebrated reaching our goal of $3 million from the community for the War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Remediation work is complete, and construction begins this summer. The building will open in 2026.
Thank you to the London community for your generosity, and to the City of London and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for building on community dollars to get these buildings open.
Photos by Gabe Ramos.
Why "Hilda Stuart Lofts"?
Hilda Stuart served in WWI as a nurse, and was awarded several medals. She then served 17 years as the nursing superintendent at Victoria Hospital on South Street. Her connection to both Canada’s war effort and to the hospital allows us honour the intention of those who founded the War Memorial Children’s Hospital. The building will always have the words “War Memorial Children’s Hospital” etched in the stone above the entrance as well. Read more about Hilda here.
