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By IAN MCGUGAN | PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 | If you asked people to name Canada’s two biggest economic challenges, many would list stratospheric home prices and plodding growth. Perhaps, then, it’s time to consider an idea that takes aim at both problems. The notion is simple enough: Do away with single-family zoning restrictions in … Read more
By Tess Kalinowski | Star Reporter | July 29, 2019 | Rob Thompson has given up the fight to sever his Long Branch property. His decision clears the way for a monster home to replace his tiny bungalow. Instead of supplanting the rundown 1939 cottage with two family homes — Thompson had hoped to live … Read more
By Laura Bliss | July 26, 2019 | Susan Kirsch’s backyard is, predictably, beautiful. Past the sunny wooden patio, tomatoes, blueberries, and poppies blossom between rugged pathways. A birdbath draws sparrows to the center; a lemon tree drapes over the back fence. But all is not perfect. Next door, her neighbors recently added a detached room, … Read more
By May Warren | Star Reporter | July 16, 2019 | The problem: While Toronto needs way more housing in the coming decades, it also has tens of thousands of garages that may becomeredundant as private vehicle ownership becomes less necessary. When the car was king in the Golden State, the garage was its castle. … Read more
By Star Editorial Board | April 22, 2019 | Sometimes a door is just a door. And sometimes it’s a lot more than that. Consider, for example, the doors that Toronto city council has decided in its wisdom won’t be allowed by right: entrances to secondary suites that are at the front of a house. … Read more
By KONRAD YAKABUSKI | PUBLISHED APRIL 5, 2019 | Canadian housing policy is, for the most part, a mess. Politicians talk endlessly about making housing more affordable. But most of their interventions in the housing market have had the opposite effect. At the very least, they’ve generated unintended consequences that have distorted the incentives faced … Read more
City of Calgary | Jan. 15, 2019 | What is a backyard suite?A backyard suite is a second residence that is in a building located behind or beside the primary residence. They are sometimes referred to as laneway houses, carriage houses, garden suites or garage suites. Why support backyard suites?Backyard suites provide flexibility and choice … Read more
By Gilbert Ngabo | Star Reporter | Nov. 9, 2018 | An outgoing councillor seemingly trying to draw attention to a “too-tall building” instead brought focus on the city’s low density- zoned areas with critics and city planners saying the real travesty is not a 75-storey highrise in the distance but the lack of higher-density … Read more
By: Jessica Mach | September 19, 2018 | Most Toronto residents think that building new homes would help the city’s affordability crisis, but many of those same people are having trouble mustering up enthusiasm for new builds in their own neighbourhoods. A staggering 88% of residents in Toronto, as well as 86% of people living in the surrounding suburbs … Read more