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Trudeau, Ford and Chow all have big ideas for fixing housing. The Star asked a panel of housing experts to weigh in.

Restrictive zoning rules, complex municipal approval processes and community opposition are just some of the obstacles standing in the way of the Ontario government's target of building 1.5 million homes over the next decade, experts and planners say.

Hopes were high that the City of Toronto's new mandatory housing plan would help preserve the Little Jamaica neighbourhood. But staff's proposal doesn't include the ethnic enclave, which is home to a high concentration of Black and Caribbean-owned businesses and a rich cultural heritage. 

Affordable housing in Toronto real estate should not come at the expense of the environment The need for more housing supply has led to calls to cut red tape and build on green space By Radheyan Simonpillai Google Earlier this year, a housing report came out that listed Toronto among the least affordable real estate markets in the world. The Demographia International Housing Affordability report put both Toronto and Vancouver among the top five. The mediapounced on the ranking, sharin...

Protecting Toronto’s Black culture in Little Jamaica by TIna Yazdani and Jessica Bruno Posted Jan 14, 2021 4:49 pm EDT Last Updated Jan 15, 2021 at 4:56 pm EDT A decade of transit construction and nearly a year of pandemic have taken their toll on Eglinton West’s Little Jamaica neighbourhood, and community members are saying now is the time to intervene to ensure it survives. “As a long-time resident here, walking along Eglinton West is shocking,” says Bill Worrell, who has lived in the...

NOW Magazine The struggle to make Toronto real estate affordable Brokers and urban planners debate how a home vacancy tax and other efforts to make housing affordable will play out in 2021 By Radheyan Simonpillai Samuel Engelking 2020 has been a very fascinating year when it comes to Toronto real estate. Our housing market reacted in unexpected ways to a global pandemic that hit the economy hard. Just when you think Toronto house prices couldn’t get any higher, they keep getting hig...