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. Construction is well underway and we anticipate a fall 2026 opening.
In 2025, thanks to the generosity of hundreds of Londoners, we reached our $5 million community fundraising goal for the Health Services Building. Construction begins in 2026 and the building will open in 2028.
We are grateful for funding from the Health and Homelessness Fund for Change, administered by the London Community Foundation, which has granted significant funding to both projects. Key funding has also been pledged by the City of London and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
With funding now in place for both projects, we have renamed the buildings. The War Memorial Children’s Hospital will be called Hilda Stuart Lofts. Hilda Stuart was a decorated WWI veteran who served as a nurse in France and Egypt as part of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. She then served is a Superintendent of Nurses at Victoria Hospital on South Street for 17 years.
Antler River Apartments is the new name for the Health Services Building. The name reflects the name of the river that flows nearby, as called by Indigenous people for centuries. The Ojibwe name of the river Deshkan Zibi, translates to Antler River.
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