HERO: Home Energy Retrofit Opportunity Project

Live Green Toronto
Community Investment Program
Click here for the Final Report (June 30, 2010)

HVRA is offering you an opportunity to lower your heating bills, reduce your carbon footprint, and make your home more comfortable.

Good Neighbours Building a Great Neighbourhood

by Rory ‘Gus' Sinclair, HVRA Chair, 2000-2009

Beginning in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, Toronto experienced a political sea change and has never been the same since. Those were the days of John Sewell's work in Trefann Court, of our ‘tiny perfect Mayor', David Crombie, of the stopping of the Spadina Expressway, of Jane Jacobs' amazing insights into how a North American city can work, and much more.

More About HVRA

News: HVRA President Gus Sinclair passes the torch to Tim Grant at October/2009 AGM

In this section of our site, you will find first of all a chronology of how HVRA came into being over the period 1999 to 2000 — this is “The Story of HVRA”.

Second, you will find the HVRA Constitution,  a homegrown document composed and written over the period of approximately one year by a committee struck by our predecessor organization Sussex Ulster Residents’ Association. The Committee’s mandate was to re-invent the Residents’ Association structure for our catchment area.  It really is a fine piece of work and it has been an excellent guide in setting HVRA on a the path to success.