Toronto Community Housing Reviews
Updated Jul 24, 2019
Found 43 reviews
Pros
"Having the ability to make a difference in the lives of our tenants" (in 4 reviews)
"Decent pay, benefits and pension" (in 3 reviews)
"Marketing Manager"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at Toronto Community Housing full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Great job flexibility; excellent training and hands on experience; great company culture
Cons
High turnover rate; unhappy employees; low salaries and reduced compensation benefits
Advice to Management
Pay employees what they are worth; listen to employee's and make improvements; offer better compensation and benefit packages
Toronto Community Housing2016-05-24"good"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at Toronto Community Housing
Pros
401k is good for savings
Cons
none that i am aware of
Advice to Management
keep up the good leadership
Toronto Community Housing2015-10-28"When you have a good manager things are great!"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookI have been working at Toronto Community Housing full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Great benefits, place to learn life skills and apply them to your life, become aware of challenges faced by the multicultural and disabilities person face in Toronto and daily life. Made great friends in company both tenants and colleagues. When you have a great team that is supportive the work is fun and enjoyable to do
Cons
Union doesn’t support employees that needed it most. Bad management forgot about policies, laws and legislation they don’t apply unless it can be used to discipline “undersirable staff”. Favouritism towards certain employees and bias against others. Allowing tenant representatives to believe the my are the site boss of the staff... nonsupport when this does happen.
Advice to Management
Easy, follow the laws and policies that govern us, then make decision based on facts not feelings and be compassionate to employees and tenants. Learn to distinguish tenants in help from the tenants that want to abuse privelages. Get a stable executive management leader would help a lot.
Toronto Community Housing2019-07-24- Helpful (1)
"Good place to work, great benefits, wasteful bureaucracy and deaf leadership"
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RecommendsNegative OutlookI worked at Toronto Community Housing full-time for more than a year
Pros
Good people Good benefits Great work-life balance Plenty of opportunities.
Cons
Wasted money Wasted time Wasted energy Departments work in silos and work is often duplicated or unnecessary in the first place. Tons of staff online shopping to fill their 8 hour shifts. Very typical unionized environment. Just work with your head down and don't challenge the status-quo. Nobody has time to implement real improvements.
Advice to Management
Lots of talk about listening to employees and making positive changes but all of this is completely symbolic, just more wasted money on consultants and nothing ever changes. Results get buried and forgotten until the next inquiry or lawsuit.
Toronto Community Housing2019-05-12 - Helpful (2)
"management"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookI worked at Toronto Community Housing full-time
Pros
Good Salaries, though not competitive with the City. Some of the employees are truly passionate and dedicated to better the lives of the vulnerable tenants. One can live up the vision to improve the lives of the marginalized if opportunities present themselves.
Cons
Extremely political environment. A lot of competition among Divisions, back-stabbing among management staff. Favouritism from senior management to managers. Senior management spent most time on talks, paper-game on planning but refused to understand that challenges at ground level issues. A lot of time/effort spent on inter-Divisions and interpersonal competition and very little productive work was accomplished. The...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Focus on supporting the vulnerable tenants and providing good quality of housing and customer service, instead on spending time to expand your empire and personal gain
Toronto Community Housing2019-03-26 "Average"
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Neutral OutlookI have been working at Toronto Community Housing full-time for more than a year
Pros
Easy commute and easy job
Cons
Very Political, emplyees need to deal with tenants
Advice to Management
None
Toronto Community Housing2019-01-24"Facilities Management"
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I have been working at Toronto Community Housing full-time
Pros
variety of projects to work on
Cons
lack of supportive management, HR is not there to protect employees, lack of innovation. Managers are not leaders. no opportunities for growth, poor culture.
Toronto Community Housing2018-11-18Toronto Community Housing Response
November 26, 2018 – Senior Recruitment Specialist
Thank you for your feedback. Toronto Community Housing takes all employee concerns seriously and has a detailed process in place to manage, investigate and support issues brought forward by employees. As such, we strongly encourage all employees who may have concerns or feel ...
Show More"Administrative Assistant"
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Doesn't RecommendI worked at Toronto Community Housing full-time for less than a year
Pros
TTC accessible Decent pay Good benefits Some room for growth
Cons
Very negative work environment Poor management High turn over
Toronto Community Housing2018-11-14Toronto Community Housing Response
November 26, 2018 – Senior Recruitment Specialist
Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to read your positive views regarding benefits and opportunities for growth at TCHC. Toronto Community Housing has undergone significant change in recent years, and as we move forward, we will continue to identify opportunities to ...
Show More"YouthWorx"
StarStarStarStarStarRecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at Toronto Community Housing full-time
Pros
It’s a good place for a first time worker who doesn’t really know what they want to do in the future
Cons
Summer job so it’s a little tiring
Toronto Community Housing2018-10-17- Helpful (1)
"TCHC job"
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I have been working at Toronto Community Housing
Pros
Meaningful employment. contribute to higher cause.
Cons
Favourtism is something that goes on with higher managment
Toronto Community Housing2018-08-22Toronto Community Housing Response
August 27, 2018 – Recruitment Policy and Compliance Manager
Thank you for your feedback. At Toronto Community Housing we are serious about fostering a positive workplace with high levels of employee engagement. We recently completed a company-wide survey to measure engagement, and are using the findings to address where we can improve and ...
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Toronto Community Housing Response
May 24, 2019 – Senior Recruitment Specialist
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. It is unfortunate that you found your employment experience at Toronto Community Housing to be less than desirable. We take employee engagement seriously and have many channels for employees to provide feedback in efforts to ...
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