Housing

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 012, Priorities

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In this episode, we take you to the Ten Year Tent City in Vancouver, where residents are protesting the lack of affordable housing in... Read More

LORINC: Why the Libs’ planning mistakes are fuelling the GTA’s real estate madness

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Until the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) released a new report showing that a shortage of supply wasn’t, in fact, the... Read More

REID: Look to backyard housing too when talking laneway housing

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Last week saw another of the regular surges of interest in laneway houses in Toronto. But we should also look to backyards without... Read More

LORINC: Let’s actually talk about investing in housing

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On and off since the early 1990s, when Paul Martin and Joe Fontana concocted an impossibly progressive policy agenda that became Jean... Read More

Misuse of Heritage Conservation Districts can deaden both past and future

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The City of Toronto believes it has found a silver bullet to control development pressure in the downtown core through the use of a... Read More

LORINC: Housing affordability, not hydro bills, is what’s really hurting Ontario

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As has been widely reported, the showpiece of Kathleen Wynne’s Monday Throne Speech is a pledge to reduce runaway hydro bills by... Read More

How co-housing designs community into developments

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For a lot of city dwellers, knowing their neighbors names is a rarity, let alone knocking on their door to ask to borrow an egg or a... Read More

REID: Is there (sometimes) induced demand in housing?

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A recent study divided U.S. cities into “expensive” and “expansive” categories when it comes to housing. The... Read More

LORINC: A Trip Advisor for rental apartments?

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When the members of the Municipal Licensing and Standards committee meet tomorrow at City Hall, they’ll be considering the latest... Read More

LORINC: Why Toronto needs to use open data to improve apartment safety

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When I went on Kijiji Thursday morning, I quickly found the following listing: a basement apartment in a bungalow for $515 a month, to... Read More