Housing
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City Visions Book Series: Yes to the City
Location: Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building – Room250 Apotex Lecture Hall Time: Friday, June 2, 5:30 – 7:30 (book talk 6-7) Join us as Max Holleran...
By Zachary Hyde & UTSC City Studies Students -
Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern
Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...
By Erick Villagomez -
OP-ED: Making encampments obsolete should be a priority for Toronto’s next mayor
No one wants encampments. Not the people who live in them, who would almost certainly rather live in a stable, adequate home. Not the neighbours, who want...
By Alan Broadbent and Elizabeth McIsaac -
LORINC: Fourplex on the Council floor
Chicken Little, it would appear, has left the neighbourhood. In an 18-7 vote, city council yesterday approved the development of four-plexes as of right...
By John Lorinc -
Your 15-minute city is not my 15-minute city
Carlos Moreno’s “15-minute city” has been promoted by many city mayors around the world – perhaps most famously Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo. In...
By Robert Turner -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 070, Toronto Mayoral Election Redux
Now that John Tory has officially stepped down as mayor, the field of candidates hoping to replace him is a big one. With roughly 50 candidates on the...
By Spacing Radio -
MAYOR’S RACE: Will it be a fear-mongering or city-building election?
The late Jack Layton used to have an adage about public life that profoundly informed his approach to politics: Proposition, he’d say, not...
By John Lorinc -
MAYOR’S RACE: Eyes on the ball, not just the prize
On Saturday afternoon, a group of about 150 people of all ages gathered at 145 St. George, an 11-storey 1960s-vintage apartment building immediately north...
By John Lorinc -
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Reinier de Graaf’s recently published book, Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building...
By Spacing -
REID: Funding the preservation of affordable rental housing
Toronto is in an affordable rental housing crisis. Not only have average rents increased rapidly in recent years, but existing private affordable rental...
By Dylan Reid -
Tools to address the affordable housing crisis facing Canada
In 2019, Canada adopted the National Housing Strategy Act, which commits all governments in Canada to “progressive realization of the right to adequate...
By Carolyn Whitzman -
OP-ED: The emergence of the Airbnb rental shadow market is harming tenants
A few weeks ago, a story broke about a family of five who relocated to Toronto from Switzerland for a ten-month work assignment. Unable to find housing...
By Thorben Wieditz