A 52-unit supportive-housing building opened on Kerr Street with a seniors' wellness hub
Halton Region's assisted and supportive-housing building at 265 Kerr Street opened in September 2025. The 52-unit building includes 22 dedicated supportive units and a Community Wellness Hub run by Links2Care, and all three levels of government paid for it.
Where this is
The details
What happened
Halton Region opened a new assisted and supportive-housing building at 265 Kerr Street in Oakville's Kerr Village on 9 September 2025. The 52-unit building includes 22 dedicated supportive-housing units — homes paired with on-site support for residents facing chronic health and mobility challenges — alongside a Community Wellness Hub.
What is inside
The Community Wellness Hub is operated by Links2Care through the Connected Care Halton Ontario Health Team. Halton Region says the hub provides social, recreational and health-education services intended to help seniors stay healthy and live independently, bringing care to residents rather than requiring them to travel for it.
- 52
- 22
- Community Wellness Hub, operated by Links2Care
- 9 September 2025
- $16.4 million
- $14.9 million
- $9.3 million (CMHC Rapid Housing Initiative)
Why it matters
Oakville's housing debate is usually about market supply and height, but the hardest gap to close is supportive housing — homes with care attached for people who cannot live fully independently. Twenty-two such units is a small number against the need, yet each is a scarce, deeply affordable home in a central, walkable part of town, built with public money from all three levels of government. It is the kind of housing the Region's own reporting flags as chronically undersupplied.