Housing

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

Is John Tory’s Housing Now plan crumbling?

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In the fall of 2018, Toronto Mayor John Tory promised to deliver 40,000 new units of affordable-housing over the next 12-years. A year... Read More

The missing middle and the case for density transition zones

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Over the past 20 years, Toronto has grown by over 500,000 people, even as its neighbourhoods have hollowed-out, with the loss of over... Read More

LORINC: Is Toronto one small step closer to finding the missing middle?

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At last week’s Toronto Urban Design Awards, Mayor John Tory announced that the City will launch an “ideas competition” meant to... Read More

How to build a low-rise apartment building

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If you’re in the Bloor and Dufferin neighbourhood a couple of summers from now and happen to head north on Dufferin, just past the... Read More