Housing

LORINC: Dedicate foreign-buyers tax to social housing

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The latest spitball fired in the ongoing pissing match between the City and the province came from the new Liberal housing minister... Read More

LORINC: Does TCHC even know the extent of its fire risk? Part III

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Update: Joe Cressy, Trinity-Spadina councillor and a member of the Toronto Community Housing board, on Tuesday provided Spacing with... Read More

LORINC: How safe are Toronto’s high-rises? Part II

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In the aftermath of the Grenfell blaze that killed a still undetermined number of Londoners, many people in Toronto began asking the... Read More

LORINC: Are Toronto’s high-rises safe for seniors? Part I

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This is part 1 of a 3-part series on the challenges faced by residents of Toronto Community Housing Marjorie MacMillan, a retiree who... Read More

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