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Inclusionary Zoning Debate Continues as City Opposes Bill 204
Toronto’s affordable housing crisis is no secret. The number of families on waiting lists for subsidized housing increased by 1.6 per cent this year, the average home price increased by 18 per cent,...
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Big City Mayors Come Together at 2016 Toronto Housing Summit
Regent Park’s Daniels Spectrum served as the ideal location to host the 2016 Toronto Housing Summit, an event that brought together mayors and representatives from Canada’s largest municipalities with...
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Ontario Announces New Funding to End Urban Homelessness
The Province of Ontario has increased its efforts to end homelessness by providing new funding for municipalities through the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative. Chris Ballard, Ontario's...
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Proposal To Bring Affordable Housing to Coxwell and Gerrard
A new proposal by Innstead Co-operative Housing Inc. seeks to bring a 6-storey co-op building to the northeast corner of Coxwell Avenue and Gerrard Street East on the east side of Toronto. Located at...
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Ontario Passes Promoting Affordable Housing Act, Introduces IZ
On December 6th, the Ontario passed the Promoting Affordable Housing Act, legislation that takes aim at the province’s affordable housing crisis. The Act, which amends seven other public acts including...
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Toronto's Housing Crisis: A Problem of Supply or Demand?
The headlines are hard to avoid, and by now, the words "Toronto housing crisis" come across as a mere statement of fact, rather than any sort of prognostication. And rightly so. In 2017, our city's...
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Toronto Community Housing: City Creates Tenant Advisory Panel
This year, 13 residents of Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) properties are helping shape the future of TCHC and Toronto's non-profit housing sector. Active since February of this year, the City's First...
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Long Term Care & Affordable Condos Coming to West Don Lands
The Province of Ontario recently announced that it will be supporting Cherry Place, a mixed long term care centre and affordable housing project in a joint development by The Rekai Centres and Options...
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Daniels Celebrates 20 Years Working with Habitat for Humanity
Earlier this week, Habitat for Humanity GTA and The Daniels Corporation celebrated 20 years of working together to provide affordable homeownership for those in need. Private developer Daniels has been...
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Province Unlocking Land for New Affordable Housing in Toronto
This morning, Mayor John Tory was joined by Ontario's Minister of Housing Peter Milczyn and other municipal and provincial representatives in Toronto's West Don Lands, to announce the initiation of a...
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Five Developers to Build Over 2,000 New Mixed-Income Rentals
offIn September 2017, Toronto Mayor John Tory and Ontario Minister of Housing Peter Milczyn were joined by other municipal and provincial representatives to announce the start of a process to select...
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Feds Announce $13.2bn Fund for Affordable Housing
offAs part of their previously-announced National Housing Strategy (NHS), the federal government revealed this week a new $13.2-billion National Housing Co-Investment Fund (NHCF) that will provide...
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Toronto City Council Approves Affordable 'Housing Now' Plan
offThis week, Toronto City Council voted to approve the ‘Housing Now’ plan, part of John Tory’s campaign promise to build 40,000 affordable rental units over the next 12 years. This first phase of the...
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