- What Toronto has appointed Hugh Clark to lead a new housing development body
- Why He had been chief development officer for TAS until May
- What next The Housing Development Office will oversee housing delivery across city agencies
The City of Toronto has tapped longtime real estate executive Hugh Clark to head a new government department tasked with coordinating housing development efforts, Green Street News can reveal.
Clark has been named executive director for the new agency, which will coordinate multifamily and social housing development planned on city-owned property. He was previously the chief development officer for Toronto-based developer TAS, a post he left in May.
Clark officially assumes the city role next Monday.
“In his new role, Clark will lead the Housing Development Office, which will serve as the central coordinating body to drive housing delivery across the corporation with [real estate arm] CreateTO and [social housing operator] Toronto Community Housing Corp., to ensure accountability, efficiency, and innovation in the city’s housing efforts,” the city’s media relations team said in a statement to Green Street News.
This is Clark’s first government job. Prior to joining TAS in 2023, he had been at Allied Properties REIT for over 11 years as an executive vice president of development. A trained architect, Clark has also spent time with local firm Baird Sampson Neuert Architects. His resume also includes time working in the U.S.
Clark will report to Jag Sharma, deputy city manager for development and growth and the former chief executive of Toronto Community Housing.
More information about the new city office will be shared in an upcoming staff report to the mayor’s executive committee, which meets on July 16.
This week, another former TAS executive landed a new job. Khan Tran, who was chief investment officer, joined Capital Developments as an executive vice president.
