Housing

LORINC: Downsview offers city-building opportunity with a long runway

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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

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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

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It is Toronto’s ur-question, the riddle of riddles, the fodder for a thousand earnest studies. What combination of public policy... Read More

When Poverty Mattered: The 1970 uprising at the Social Planning Council

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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?

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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

When do we admit that Toronto’s housing crisis is an emergency?

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Should the City of Toronto declare a housing and homelessness emergency? Reports on deaths of homeless people, increasing levels of... Read More

National Housing Innovation event tackles Toronto’s housing affordability crisis

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Toronto’s housing affordability crisis has long dominated headlines and political discourse, but measures introduced by our... Read More

Toronto’s missing middle should be built along collector roads

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Much of the conversation about missing middle development in Toronto has been focused on how to smuggle additional housing units into... Read More

LORINC: What exactly does ‘affordable housing’ mean in Toronto?

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With the unveiling yesterday of the City’s ten-year “Housing Opportunities Toronto” (HOT) action plan, Mayor John Tory and city... Read More

A Parkdale airbnb eviction story (but not what you think)

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Last week, I learned that my landlords had succeeded in evicting me from my apartment in Parkdale, a beautiful but not inexpensive... Read More