Housing
This weekend: Jane’s Walk Festival + Provocation Ideas Festival
By Joseph Wilson
Urban activist Jane Jacobs’ birthday is this week (May 4) and many Torontonians will be celebrating by attending the Jane’s Walk... Read More
LORINC: The back-channel lobbying of residents’ associations
By John Lorinc
Should residents’ associations be required to register as lobbyists? This loaded question, as it turns out, was canvassed, sort... Read More
REID: Shadows and light – a longstanding debate
By Dylan Reid
It’s an argument, it turns out, that has been going on for centuries. When new tall or mid-rise buildings are discussed, one of the... Read More
OP-ED: Look to co-op housing to address Canada’s affordability crisis
By Margaret Kohn
The cost of housing doesn’t have to be exorbitant, but it will stay that way as long as the government continues to stimulate the... Read More
LORINC: The horrible lies of Pierre Poilievre’s real estate lessons
By John Lorinc
Why do we have a housing crisis? Let me count the ways: Low interest rates, restrictive zoning, permissive zoning, contractor... Read More
OP-ED: Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force pushes for private sector power over true affordability
By Heather Breeze, Mona Dai, and Samuel Ganton
Written on behalf of The Architecture Lobby Toronto/Tkaronto (TAL-TO). TAL-TO is a volunteer-run collective working to improve the... Read More
LORINC: Unspooling the rhetoric about ‘red tape’ and urban planning
By John Lorinc
There are few things more certain about political rhetoric than the appearance of conservative shibboleths about “red... Read More
Finding the Missing Middle in Unexpected Places: Cornwall, Ontario’s Permissive Zoning
By Alex Gatien
Urbanist discourse of recent years has commonly turned to reviving the Missing Middle as one means of remedying the skyrocketing cost... Read More
LORINC: NIMBYs vs Garden Suites, Season 2
By John Lorinc
Here’s an odd little mystery about a freshly filed appeal by a residents association coalition of council’s new... Read More
LORINC: Debunking the misinformation about garden suites
By John Lorinc
While most people were riveted last weekend by the wretched spectacle of extremist-palooza in Ottawa, the busy beavers of the tiny... Read More