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Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

Tyndale Green has gotten the go-ahead to intensify a Toronto neighbourhood with an anti-development legacy

The federal government’s elimination of the GST on rental builds, and the Ontario government’s matching, will give that market a much-needed boost. But more can and should still be done

Building more housing in Canada will require a herculean effort across all levels of government. Some policy solutions are easier than others, such as removing the GST from purpose-built rentals, but there are other things governments can do right now to get more housing built.

Housing experts and developers say removing taxes is a great first step toward incentivizing housing construction, but caution more needs to be done to restore housing affordability.

The Integrity Commissioner’s report lays the blame for giving developers undue access at the feed of Housing Minister Steve Clark’s former chief of staff, Ryan Amato

The cube house, depending upon one’s perspective, is either a Toronto housing icon or an ugly, elevated, box-shaped hunk of junk. Read more.

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