Housing
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LORINC: The back-channel lobbying of residents’ associations
Should residents’ associations be required to register as lobbyists? This loaded question, as it turns out, was canvassed, sort of, by council about...
By John Lorinc -
REID: Shadows and light – a longstanding debate
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 issues that always...
By Dylan Reid -
OP-ED: Look to co-op housing to address Canada’s affordability crisis
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 private market rather...
By Margaret Kohn -
LORINC: The horrible lies of Pierre Poilievre’s real estate lessons
Why do we have a housing crisis? Let me count the ways: Low interest rates, restrictive zoning, permissive zoning, contractor shortages, building material...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force pushes for private sector power over true affordability
Written on behalf of The Architecture Lobby Toronto/Tkaronto (TAL-TO). TAL-TO is a volunteer-run collective working to improve the current state of...
By Heather Breeze, Mona Dai, and Samuel Ganton -
LORINC: Unspooling the rhetoric about ‘red tape’ and urban planning
There are few things more certain about political rhetoric than the appearance of conservative shibboleths about “red tape” come election...
By John Lorinc -
Finding the Missing Middle in Unexpected Places: Cornwall, Ontario’s Permissive Zoning
Urbanist discourse of recent years has commonly turned to reviving the Missing Middle as one means of remedying the skyrocketing cost of housing in Canada...
By Alex Gatien -
LORINC: NIMBYs vs Garden Suites, Season 2
Here’s an odd little mystery about a freshly filed appeal by a residents association coalition of council’s new “garden suites”...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Debunking the misinformation about garden suites
While most people were riveted last weekend by the wretched spectacle of extremist-palooza in Ottawa, the busy beavers of the tiny world of ratepayer...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 064, Toronto Shelter Collapse
Those working with unhoused people in Toronto, like Sanctuary Toronto outreach worker Lorraine Lam, are warning about the total collapse of the...
By Spacing Radio -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 063, The War on Robots
We end the year with a classic case of man vs. machine, as journalist and culture writer Graham Isador talks about tiny delivery robots taking over city...
By Spacing Radio -
Regent Park Revitalization: A Progress Report by Spacing
Beginning this week, Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC) and Tridel formally commence a public consultation process that marks the beginning of the...
By Spacing