Housing
LORINC: Paying rent in a pandemic
By John Lorinc
It’s the first of the month, which means, for many Toronto tenants, that rent’s due – a perennial transaction that was already imbued... Read More
In face of Covid-19, what if Canada’s health system looked like our housing system?
By Emily Paradis
Covid-19 is making everyday life feel like dystopian fiction. But imagine an even more apocalyptic scenario: what if Canada’s health... Read More
Twelve Lessons from Housing First for Ending Homelessness
By Naomi Wittes Reichstein
by Shannon Lambie and Naomi Wittes Reichstein On wrapping the five-year, $110-million At Home/Chez Soi landmark pilot project, the... Read More
LORINC: Downsview offers city-building opportunity with a long runway
By John Lorinc
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
By John Lorinc
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
By John Lorinc
It is Toronto’s ur-question, the riddle of riddles, the fodder for a thousand earnest studies. What combination of public policy... Read More
EVENT: SFU City Conversations: Golf Courses or Housing & Parks? – Feb 20th
By Spacing
Golf Courses or Housing & Parks WHEN: Thursday, February 20, 2020 – 12:30 – 1:30PM WHERE: SFU Vancouver at Harbour... Read More
When Poverty Mattered: The 1970 uprising at the Social Planning Council
By Paul Weinberg
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?
By John Lorinc
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
Vancouver’s Rents and Incomes: A Critical Analysis
By Jens
Our housing crisis is fundamentally a rental crisis. As such, it’s important to keep the numbers straight so that we can better focus... Read More