Canadian Urbanism Uncovered
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• Affordable housing gap tops $1 billion [ Toronto Star ]
• A long wait for affordable places to live [ Toronto Star ]
• Senator’s tax-free bond proposal draws skeptical review from Miller [ Globe and Mail ]
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2 comments
Reading the reports on the housing gaps makes me feel a deep down desire to see John Sewell to reassume his role as an advocate for the funding of not for profit and other forms of affordable housing.
Back in the mid late 1970s through to the early mid 1990s the old city of Toronto and its umbrilla municipality Metro Toronto made wonderful achievements in reversing the damage that had been done to the reputation of affordable housing in this city. We saw the construction of the St. Lawrence neighborhood, the first new neighborhood in this city with affordable housing that was designed with a form similar to that of other older neighborhoods (rather than the Toronto Housing properties that were built after the war that encouraged a more socially unhealthy environment). Toronto Community Housing has made the first step to improving the quality of it’s housing stock with the now undergoing work to replace Regent Park, Lawrence Heights and Don Mount Court but much more help is needed. With a federal minority government in power and an ever growing federal infrastructure defecit mounting, it is only a matter of time before the country wakes up and realizes that something must be done about it.
Sincerely
Jordan Kerim
The city of toronto is the the landlord with the most properties in toronto.Now they have to fix their holdings and increase the number of units owned by about 20,000 units.It would be a good start and the rich of toronto could pay!Right?!?!
Hey just borrow the money and run a debt.You can increase the property taxes to pay the interest on that debt.Just tell the owners you are building a great city, hey it works they will pay!