Invest in a Community-Owned
Kensington Market!




Our community bond campaign is currently on pause and will relaunch in July 2025. You can support us by signing up for our community bond waitlist or donating to our organization. Let’s ensure that Kensington Market continues to be an inclusive, vibrant, and affordable place 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:

More information will be provided in July 2025 on how to purchase a bond.

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. We make notable achievements to protect and enhance the unique neighbourhood character in Kensington Market. 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