Housing
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 012, Priorities
In this episode, we take you to the Ten Year Tent City in Vancouver, where residents are protesting the lack of affordable housing in that city. Andrew...
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LORINC: Why the Libs’ planning mistakes are fuelling the GTA’s real estate madness
Until the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) released a new report showing that a shortage of supply wasn’t, in fact, the culprit in the speculative...
By John Lorinc -
REID: Look to backyard housing too when talking laneway housing
Last week saw another of the regular surges of interest in laneway houses in Toronto. But we should also look to backyards without lanes, often in...
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LORINC: Let’s actually talk about investing in housing
On and off since the early 1990s, when Paul Martin and Joe Fontana concocted an impossibly progressive policy agenda that became Jean Chrétien’s Red Book...
By John Lorinc -
Misuse of Heritage Conservation Districts can deaden both past and future
The City of Toronto believes it has found a silver bullet to control development pressure in the downtown core through the use of a tool known as a...
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LORINC: Housing affordability, not hydro bills, is what’s really hurting Ontario
As has been widely reported, the showpiece of Kathleen Wynne’s Monday Throne Speech is a pledge to reduce runaway hydro bills by 8%, courtesy of a...
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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...
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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...
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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