Housing

LORINC: The back-channel lobbying of residents’ associations

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Should residents’ associations be required to register as lobbyists? This loaded question, as it turns out, was canvassed, sort... Read More

REID: Shadows and light – a longstanding debate

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It’s an argument, it turns out, that has been going on for centuries. When new tall or mid-rise buildings are discussed, one of the... Read More

OP-ED: Look to co-op housing to address Canada’s affordability crisis

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The cost of housing doesn’t have to be exorbitant, but it will stay that way as long as the government continues to stimulate the... Read More

LORINC: The horrible lies of Pierre Poilievre’s real estate lessons

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Why do we have a housing crisis? Let me count the ways: Low interest rates, restrictive zoning, permissive zoning, contractor... Read More

OP-ED: Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force pushes for private sector power over true affordability

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Written on behalf of The Architecture Lobby Toronto/Tkaronto (TAL-TO). TAL-TO is a volunteer-run collective working to improve the... Read More

LORINC: Unspooling the rhetoric about ‘red tape’ and urban planning

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There are few things more certain about political rhetoric than the appearance of conservative shibboleths about “red... Read More

Finding the Missing Middle in Unexpected Places: Cornwall, Ontario’s Permissive Zoning

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Urbanist discourse of recent years has commonly turned to reviving the Missing Middle as one means of remedying the skyrocketing cost... Read More

LORINC: NIMBYs vs Garden Suites, Season 2

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Here’s an odd little mystery about a freshly filed appeal by a residents association coalition of council’s new... Read More

LORINC: Debunking the misinformation about garden suites

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While most people were riveted last weekend by the wretched spectacle of extremist-palooza in Ottawa, the busy beavers of the tiny... Read More