Housing
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How co-housing designs community into developments
For a lot of city dwellers, knowing their neighbors names is a rarity, let alone knocking on their door to ask to borrow an egg or a cup of sugar...
By Alex Steep -
REID: Is there (sometimes) induced demand in housing?
A recent study divided U.S. cities into “expensive” and “expansive” categories when it comes to housing. The high cost of housing...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: A Trip Advisor for rental apartments?
When the members of the Municipal Licensing and Standards committee meet tomorrow at City Hall, they’ll be considering the latest attempt to license the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Why Toronto needs to use open data to improve apartment safety
When I went on Kijiji Thursday morning, I quickly found the following listing: a basement apartment in a bungalow for $515 a month, to share with two...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING: House party for the housing issue!
WHEN: Friday, May 13, 8pm-12am WHERE: 159 Manning Ave. (just east of Trinity-Bellwoods Park) TIME: 8pm – 12am SHARE: Here’s our Facebook event...
By Spacing -
When Haileybury burned, Toronto sent streetcars
The town of Haileybury sits on the shore of Lake Timiskaming, a serpentine body of water on the northern reaches of the Ottawa River that marks the border...
By Chris Bateman -
A history of developers and holdouts in Toronto
When the Imperial Oil company began assembling land for its new executive offices on St. Clair Ave. W. in 1952, it didn’t reckon on tangling with...
By Chris Bateman -
The fall of Sir Henry Pellatt, king of Casa Loma
A carved marble fountain of child figures supporting a dolphin, a solid bronze buffalo head, and hundreds of champagne flutes, wine glasses, and ceramic...
By Chris Bateman -
Welcome to your private nuclear fallout shelter
In 1959, the builders of Regency Acres, a 700-home subdivision in Aurora, Ontario, offered something no other homebuilder in the country could: a private...
By Chris Bateman -
BURALE: The reality of fighting poverty
If cities had New Year’s resolutions, Toronto’s should be a poverty reduction strategy. According to the new report on child poverty released in...
By Idil Burale -
The horror of the Rupert Hotel fire still lingers
The fire had been burning out of control at the Rupert Hotel for 17 minutes before someone called 911. As flames and acrid smoke filled the corridors of...
By Chris Bateman -
Exploring the busy basements & makeshift markets of Regent Park with Civic Salon
Basements are often unsung heroes of great cities. In new and old Regent Park the unseen basement hides both bottom-up and top-down initiatives to...
By Robert Ruggiero