Housing
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COVID-19 is a wake-up call for Toronto to act on housing and homelessness
In order to flatten the COVID-19 curve, Canadians have been advised to stay home as much as possible and, when going out, to engage in social distancing...
By John Clapp -
LORINC: Paying rent in a pandemic
It’s the first of the month, which means, for many Toronto tenants, that rent’s due – a perennial transaction that was already imbued with stress, and...
By John Lorinc -
In face of Covid-19, what if Canada’s health system looked like our housing system?
Covid-19 is making everyday life feel like dystopian fiction. But imagine an even more apocalyptic scenario: what if Canada’s health system looked like...
By Emily Paradis -
LORINC: Downsview offers city-building opportunity with a long runway
The key take-away in the Metrolinx business case report released last week, on the economics of the Scarborough subway, is as simple as can be: the vast...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Burning down the (laneway) house
In recent months, I’ve found myself wondering whether Toronto City Council’s much-touted laneway suites policy, circa 2018, was nothing more than an...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Council ponders $600 million affordable housing incentive
It is Toronto’s ur-question, the riddle of riddles, the fodder for a thousand earnest studies. What combination of public policy, political will and pixie...
By John Lorinc -
When Poverty Mattered: The 1970 uprising at the Social Planning Council
Editor’s note: Excerpted from the book When Poverty Mattered, Then and Now, by Paul Weinberg (Fernwood Publishing, 2019). There is something both...
By Paul Weinberg -
We have a housing crisis— why aren’t we talking about rent control?
In the mad-dash scramble to call out the culprits and cheer on the saviours in Toronto’s ever-accelerating housing crisis, there’s been an outpouring of...
By John Lorinc -
When do we admit that Toronto’s housing crisis is an emergency?
Should the City of Toronto declare a housing and homelessness emergency? Reports on deaths of homeless people, increasing levels of housing...
By John Clapp -
National Housing Innovation event tackles Toronto’s housing affordability crisis
Toronto’s housing affordability crisis has long dominated headlines and political discourse, but measures introduced by our governments have so far been...
By Andres Griffiths -
Toronto’s missing middle should be built along collector roads
Much of the conversation about missing middle development in Toronto has been focused on how to smuggle additional housing units into residential areas...
By Geoff Turnbull and Laurence Holland -
LORINC: What exactly does ‘affordable housing’ mean in Toronto?
With the unveiling yesterday of the City’s ten-year “Housing Opportunities Toronto” (HOT) action plan, Mayor John Tory and city council’s housing czar Ana...
By John Lorinc