PAL Toronto's mandate is to offer assistance to and create and encourage programs and services for older, disabled or needy members and associates of Canada's professional performing arts community in the areas of health, well-being and affordable accommodation.

After convincing the City of Toronto to allow PAL Place to exclusively cater to those in the performing arts community, the age limitations were lifted. However, it is still required that applicants for residency must have devoted a substantial portion of their professional careers to the performing arts and associated crafts.

This includes, actors, clowns, costume designers, dancers, directors of photography, camera persons (but not still photographers), make-up artists, movie and theatre publicists, movie, theatre, television and radio technicians, musicians, performing arts administrators, production assistants, assistant directors and stage managers, scenic artists (but not fine artists or visual artists), set decorators and props persons, set and costume designers, singers, stage hands, gaffers and grips, theatre, film and television directors, writers for film, television, theatre and radio.

MARKET VALUE ACCOMMODATION: Approximately one third of PAL Place's 205 units are available at market rents based on guidelines provided by Toronto Social Housing Administration. The waiting time is several months.

SUBSIDIZED ACCOMMODATION: Approximately two-thirds of PAL Place's 205 units are available at a rent-geared-to-income (RGI) formula, based on guidelines established by Housing Connections, a division of the Social Housing Administration of the City of Toronto. The waiting time can be several years.

For either type of accommodation applicants must show their eligibility by providing a resumé of their history in the performing arts and/or associated organizations with a complete list of professional performing arts organizations to which they belong or have belonged.  They will be notified in writing when their application has been approved and added to the waiting list.  When applicants are called, they must reply within three days or the next person on the list will be called.