Housing
LORINC: Downsview offers city-building opportunity with a long runway
By John Lorinc
The key take-away in the Metrolinx business case report released last week, on the economics of the Scarborough subway, is as simple... Read More
LORINC: Burning down the (laneway) house
By John Lorinc
In recent months, I’ve found myself wondering whether Toronto City Council’s much-touted laneway suites policy, circa 2018, was... Read More
LORINC: Council ponders $600 million affordable housing incentive
By John Lorinc
It is Toronto’s ur-question, the riddle of riddles, the fodder for a thousand earnest studies. What combination of public policy... Read More
EVENT: SFU City Conversations: Golf Courses or Housing & Parks? – Feb 20th
By Spacing
Golf Courses or Housing & Parks WHEN: Thursday, February 20, 2020 – 12:30 – 1:30PM WHERE: SFU Vancouver at Harbour... Read More
When Poverty Mattered: The 1970 uprising at the Social Planning Council
By Paul Weinberg
Editor’s note: Excerpted from the book When Poverty Mattered, Then and Now, by Paul Weinberg (Fernwood Publishing, 2019). There... Read More
We have a housing crisis— why aren’t we talking about rent control?
By John Lorinc
In the mad-dash scramble to call out the culprits and cheer on the saviours in Toronto’s ever-accelerating housing crisis, there’s... Read More
Vancouver’s Rents and Incomes: A Critical Analysis
By Jens
Our housing crisis is fundamentally a rental crisis. As such, it’s important to keep the numbers straight so that we can better focus... Read More
When do we admit that Toronto’s housing crisis is an emergency?
By John Clapp
Should the City of Toronto declare a housing and homelessness emergency? Reports on deaths of homeless people, increasing levels of... Read More
Understanding Affordability: A Partial Picture
By Erick Villagomez
Click here to enlarge the graph. Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. Nydia Velazquez... Read More
National Housing Innovation event tackles Toronto’s housing affordability crisis
By Andres Griffiths
Toronto’s housing affordability crisis has long dominated headlines and political discourse, but measures introduced by our... Read More