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Our second Kensington Community Bond Campaign is now live and community bonds are available for purchase! Our goal is to raise $2 million to replace a portion of our mortgage on 302 Spadina Avenue with community bonds, allowing us to lower our debt costs as an organization and keep wealth in the community.

Let’s keep affordable housing and community spaces in community hands, now and for generations to come.


The Opportunity


In June 2025, KMCLT acquired its third building at 302 Spadina Avenue. This property is a 5-storey mixed-use building with 26 residential units and 11 commercial spaces. We are now relaunching the community bond campaign to repay $2 million of our mortgage by December 2025, with the goal of lowering our debt costs and continuing to deliver on our commitment to affordable housing. As an organization that is centered on mutual-aid and community empowerment, we believe that our financing options should align with these values, and community bonds allow us to put money directly back into our community and supporters.

A community bond is an interest-bearing loan that a non-profit, charity, or co-operative can issue to support a project they are undertaking. Individuals and organizations can purchase a community bond and earn a fixed interest rate, and their investments support projects that generate positive social, cultural, or environmental returns. For our second community bond campaign, we will be offering the following bond options:

Kensington Community Bond Details


  • All bond funds will be directed into an escrow account with our lawyer, Iler Campbell LLP. On December 15, 2025, bond funds will be released from the escrow account and used to repay our mortgage.
  • Bond funds held in escrow will receive between 1% to 1.5% interest, and once released from escrow, will earn the full interest rate for the series as per the investment terms.
  • For those that are keen to help further, there will be an opportunity to donate interest earned each year back to KMCLT.
  • Once bonds mature, investors can choose to redeem their principal, reinvest in new bonds that may be available, or donate their principal to our organization.
  • Investments are open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents who reside in Canada.

Our Experience


In 2024, we launched our community bond campaign and raised over $1 million in investments to support the acquisition of a second property. Our second building is located at 380 Spadina Avenue, and is a 3-storey mixed-use building with two large residential units and one commercial space. Using community bonds, we secured a large donation and leveraged funding from the City of Toronto to complete this purchase, making this building community-financed and community owned. 

Community open house inside the second floor apartment of 380 Spadina. Photo by Isaac Mann.


Our Track Record


As a local, community-led organization, our impact goes beyond just securing land. By investing in KMCLT, you assist our organization in meeting the following goals: 


Need more information? Hear from our community members!


Listen to members from the Kensington Market community talk about why they’re invested in our work and our community bond campaign.


Frequently Asked Questions








For further inquiries, please reach out to invest@kmclt.ca.

Land AcknowledgementWe, as members of the Kensington Market Community Land Trust, are aware that we are a settler organization. Kensington Market sits in the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit (an Anishnaabe people), the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat and Petun Nations, land which is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon wampum belt covenant, an agreement by the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee to share resources equally and peaceably. It is also covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. As a settler organization concerned with land ownership, we acknowledge that we have broken the treaties. Our work for the well-being of this land must include accountability to our relatives.


More Community Groups
Kensington-Bellwoods Legal Clinic
https://www.kbcls.org/

Toronto Chinatown Land Trust
https://chinatownlandtrust.ca/
Friends of Chinatown Toronto
www.instagram.com/friendsofchinatownto


Our Contact

Mailing Address:
103 Bellevue Avenue,
Toronto, ON, Canada

Email:
info@kmclt.ca