Housing

LORINC: How to expedite affordable housing during a crisis

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With the launch of the annual budget slam dance, at the beginning of a new term of city council, on this, the 25th anniversary of... Read More

EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

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The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a... Read More

LORINC: Toronto’s Rooming House deal: Solving the ultimate puzzle

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Toronto is a city whose residents are encouraged (or encourage one another) to dislike certain things, but who have also forgotten (or... Read More

LORINC: The devil will be in the details of John Tory’s housing action plan

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Update: Council passed Mayor John Tory’s Housing Action Plan, with a raft of tweaks, including a provision to require parking... Read More

LORINC: Will Toronto defend its rental replacement law from Doug Ford?

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In the late 1990s, then St. Paul’s West councillor Joe Mihevc took up the cause of several hundred tenants, many of them... Read More

Election Panel: the 905 Edition

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As Toronto gets ready to vote, we are bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will break down the... Read More

LORINC: What’s missing from the missing middle debate

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City council has spent the past few years chipping away at the walls surrounding that seemingly impregnable fortress otherwise known... Read More