Derek BALLANTYNE
Derek is the Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, a position he has held since 2001. Toronto Community Housing is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. It is home to about 164,000 low- and moderate-income tenants in 58,000 households, including seniors, families, singles, refugees, recent immigrants to Canada and people with special needs.
Derek previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Housing Company, from 1999-2001. Prior to that, he was General Manager, City Living, City of Ottawa Non-profit Housing .
Derek was a long-time volunteer and Board Chair of a community-based non-profit housing corporation in Ottawa ; a founding Board member of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association, and Chair, Raising the Roof, a national charitable organization dedicated to finding solutions to homelessness.
He currently sits on the Board of the Ontario 's Social Housing Services Corporation, and has worked on provincial housing working groups and committees in the design and implementation of social housing programs.
He has a background in the public and private sectors, and has worked as an independent consultant in project management and delivery.
First elected to the FSA Board at AGM 2005, Derek is currently, Chair of the Governance Committee.
