Housing
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LORINC: What’s the big idea behind Housing Now?
John Tory’s executive committee convenes today to consider, among other items, the fleshed out implementation strategy for the first phase of his Housing...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: How reducing development charges will spur the ‘missing middle’
While city council tries to figure out how to confront a made-in-Toronto housing affordability crisis, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Will this council actually fix Toronto’s housing crisis?
If you did the blink test on last fall’s municipal election (disregarding all the static created by Doug Ford’s intervention), it would be fair to say the...
By John Lorinc -
A modest proposal for reforming Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax
By Zack Taylor Few topics have pre-occupied Toronto’s budget watchers more over the past decade than the city’s land transfer tax (LTT). People love it or...
By Spacing -
Guest Op-ed: Building a Waterfront City in Toronto
OP-ED: By City Councillor Joe Cressy Revitalizing our waterfront is the largest and longest-lasting project that we will leave for future generations of...
By Spacing -
REID: How do we improve cities without causing displacement? Discussion from the Salzburg Global Seminar
As demand for urban living continues to increase, how do we make our cities better without triggering displacement of low and middle-income people who...
By Dylan Reid -
PODCAST: Election Panel with Denise Balkissoon and John Michael McGrath
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe...
By Spacing Radio -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 026, Interesting Times
In this episode, we speak with Cycle Toronto’s Liz Sutherland for a Vision Zero update, and what the new Ontario government means to cycling...
By Spacing Radio -
What TCHC needs to do next with Regent Park
This is a guest column from Shauna Brail and Alfred Jean-Baptiste Over the relatively short time span of just over a decade, Regent Park has gone from a...
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Why I revived the Bureau of Municipal Research
Ten years ago, as a grad student researching the history of Toronto’s waterfront, I came across a study, published in 1977, that could very well have been...
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REID: Hi-Lo-rise infill buildings
Amidst the discussion of the potential and challenges of building new mid-rise buildings to increase density along Toronto’s main streets outside...
By Dylan Reid -
What Airbnb is doing to Toronto’s rental apartment market
As housing prices continue to soar in major cities across the world, Airbnb’s profits are following suit. This is not a coincidence. In fact, my own...
By Sean Grisdale