Saunders was chairman of the city committee which established Regent Park as Canada's first public housing project.

The earliest and most notorious example of such projects was Regent Park.

Regent Park is Canada's oldest and largest social housing project; built in the late 1940s.

The city government developed a plan to demolish and rebuild Regent Park over the next ten years, with the first phase having started fall 2005.

Regent Park was originally designed as a transitional community.

Overall the formal mechanism set up to give tenants voice in the day to day management of the Regent Park had a positive impact.

Regent Park is served by two close public libraries.

Regent Park has a very young population.

It is now known as The Barn at Regent Park.

He also advocated the creation of Regent Park, Canada's first large scale public housing project.