Housing
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LORINC: How over-crowding has made housing lethal during pandemic
There were so many truly awful details about the death, from COVID-19, of 13-year-old Emily Victoria Viegas — Brampton’s wall-to-wall hotspots, the lack...
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Toronto after the 1st Wave: How COVID-19 affected three key markets
This is co-authored by Youjing Li and Shauna Brail In the fall of 2020, a University of Toronto research team set out to track key metrics from the city...
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LORINC: The vital need to renew Tower Renewal
Almost exactly a year ago, a team of American affordable housing experts from the Urban Land Institute came to Toronto to offer up ideas for breaking the...
By John Lorinc -
BRADFORD OP-ED: Making 2021 Toronto’s year of the missing middle
The year 2021 comes with high expectations, expectations to get back to the work we started pre-COVID and to build back stronger when it’s over. In...
By Brad Bradford -
LORINC: Crombie’s resignation from Greenbelt Council reminds us to look upstream
Of course, the Ford government responded with misdirection and a bit of money. In the wake of David Crombie’s weekend resignation from the Greenbelt...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 051, Toronto’s shelter disaster
In this episode, we look at the housing and homelessness crisis that has escalated into a full-blown disaster during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dania Majid...
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REID: Piketty and the decline of “dirty mansions”
Toronto’s affordable housing crisis has many facets. One of these many facets is the conversion – or rather, re-conversion – of big old houses in the...
By Dylan Reid -
A case for compassionate design in housing standards at Toronto shelters
For thousands of Toronto residents, housing precarity and homelessness are a lived reality. But for many others, the issue grew suddenly more visible as...
By Kellie Chin and Naomi Shewchuk -
Parks, policing, and the pandemic
Park People’s national COVID-19 survey shows that parks have become more important than ever to Canadians during the pandemic. While many have been using...
By Adri Stark -
LORINC: Slaying the NIMBY beast
It took council and city planning officials almost exactly a year to adopt a policy meant to make Toronto’s abundant, overpriced and increasingly...
By John Lorinc -
REID: Examples of east side gentle density
One of the things I started looking out for on my local walks during the our locked-down pandemic spring (in addition to former corner stores) was...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: Is Toronto missing the middle or missing the mark on housing?
A thought experiment: Imagine Toronto is a big city experiencing a housing affordability crisis and steadily worsening polarization. Municipal officials...
By John Lorinc