Housing
BRADFORD OP-ED: Making 2021 Toronto’s year of the missing middle
By Brad Bradford
The year 2021 comes with high expectations, expectations to get back to the work we started pre-COVID and to build back stronger when... Read More
Housing, Like Beer, Is Better Done in Small Batches
By scothein
Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt, and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 percent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly... Read More
Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & Beyond
By Sean Ruthen
Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts... Read More
Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By Erick Villagomez
Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More
The Laws of Settlements book available for free online!
By Erick Villagomez
Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that... Read More
LORINC: Crombie’s resignation from Greenbelt Council reminds us to look upstream
By John Lorinc
Of course, the Ford government responded with misdirection and a bit of money. In the wake of David Crombie’s weekend resignation from... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 051, Toronto’s shelter disaster
By Spacing Radio
In this episode, we look at the housing and homelessness crisis that has escalated into a full-blown disaster during the COVID-19... Read More
Video Vancouver: The Missing Middle Mystery
By Yuri Artibise
Via About Here Metro Vancouver primarily has two types of housing. High rises or the single family house. What happened to all the... Read More
REID: Piketty and the decline of “dirty mansions”
By Dylan Reid
Toronto’s affordable housing crisis has many facets. One of these many facets is the conversion – or rather, re-conversion – of big... Read More
Student Housing as a Response to the Housing Crisis
By brianwakelin
The global housing crisis is a challenging and multi-faceted problem. Part of the solution, already successfully employed by... Read More