A Toronto housing mega project across the sprawling Downsview lands is set to receive a double funding boost from city council and the federal government, with plans to expand infrastructure in the area and build more than 500 modular homes.

A gaggle of federal and municipal leaders gathered on the site — which is planned to host more than 100,000 people when it is completed — on Tuesday to announce that their vision for a “city within a city” was set to move forward.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said $425 million in city funding and $280 million from the federal government would combine to expand the area’s Black Creek Trunk Sewer, which is nearing capacity.

Expanding the 1960s sewer was the key, she said, to “unlocking the potential of this neighbourhood.” Without the upgrades, work

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