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Julianna BeckettA 201-unit building to be constructed at 409 Brant Street at James will be built as rental units, with the rent for 25 per cent of them geared to the tenants’ incomes. The developer scrapped plans for a condo on the site because the condo market has stalled. Federal subsidies support the affordable units. Read … Read more
When city forces pushed homeless encampments off the rail trail recently, leaving the people living there with no place to go, some of those evicted set up tents at city hall. It’s not an encampment, it’s a protest against the indignity and violence of the city’s clearing of encampments. On Tuesday, bylaw and police officers, … Read more
Reverend Danie has referred to a literary genre called solar punk. In keeping with May’s theme ‘imagination’, here is a great read in the solar punk genre that imagines a liveable, greener future. Imagining a greener future is a needed step in creating one. In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers’s delightful new Monk … Read more
The latest provincial budget, released last week, is again frustrating for those committed to expanding the supply of badly needed affordable non-profit and co-op housing. The Ontario government remains focused on supporting further expansion of for-profit housing and the budget never mentions non-profit or co-op housing. But even on its own terms, the government isn’t … Read more
Canada’s new federal housing minister, Gregor Robertson, had barely been sworn in when he was asked a simple question: Do you think prices [for homes] need to go down? He said, “No, I think that we need to deliver more supply, make sure the market is stable, it’s a huge part of our economy. We … Read more