Beautiful. Affordable. Urban. Green. Making affordable rental a great, and first, choice.
Toronto, Ontario
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Creative Housing is a non-profit designed to deliver much needed affordable, rental housing in Canada's major cities at a scale that will make a difference. #CreativeHousing #NextGenerationHousing #AffordableRental
BIV: Five-Tower Rental Housing Project Part of ‘Rapid Growth and Transformation’ of Kingsway - The development team wants to construct five rental towers ranging from 19 to 29 storeys at 3410 Kingsway. The project features 1,082 purpose-built rental units and commercial ... (1/2)
... space … The site is currently occupied by a Safeway and BC Liquor store … The site is within walking distance to the Joyce-Collingwood Station SkyTrain station and falls within a transit-oriented area radius: (2/2)
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Walrus: Are Immigrants Really to Blame for Canada’s Housing Crisis? - Over the past thirty years, national and international developments have reduced housing supply and changed people’s ability to access the housing market. For example, governments have withdrawn from ... (1/2)
... housing supply management, and economic restructuring has affected household income and housing affordability … As a result, reducing immigration may reduce the demand for housing, but improving affordability requires more than that: (2/2)
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Globe and Mail: The housing Crisis Is No Longer Shaping Big-City Politics. Why Not? - Part of the explanation is that, as the housing market has softened, elected officials no longer see planning reform and housing construction as an urgent priority. The current drop in ... (1/2)
... rents and prices may be weakening the political resolve for change ... a structural shortage of supply remains, and it is getting worse because we have largely stopped building: (2/2)
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CP24: Here’s a List of What Olivia Chow Has Promised to Do in Her Second Term - Chow is promising 10,000 new rental home starts in 2027, with affordable homes making up at least 20% of that total ... For renters, Chow promised to create a “bad landlords taskforce” to go ... (1/2)
... after “slumlords” by conducting proactive inspections: (2/2)
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Toronto Life: Ideas to Solve the Housing Crisis that Just Might Work - Despite efforts from all levels of government, agencies, developers and not-for-profits, Toronto still has a critical shortage of affordable, livable homes. So we asked a bunch of big thinkers to ... (1/2)
... give us their boldest proposals for how to turn things around: (2/2)
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Construction Canada: New Rental Tower Breaks Ground in Transit-Friendly Toronto Neighbourhood - A 50-storey purpose-built rental tower has broken ground at 88 Isabella St. in downtown Toronto, promising 500 residences in close proximity to Lines 1 and 2 of the TTC ... (1/2)
... Amenities will include an outdoor terrace surrounding the base of the tower, a south-facing outdoor pool, a fitness studio and spa, and a children’s room. Co-working spaces for groups and individuals include double-height ceilings: (2/2)
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Urbanized: Five Towers with 1,000+ Homes Proposed for Safeway Site on Kingsway in Vancouver - A major high-density, mixed-use redevelopment could replace the old suburban-style Safeway grocery store and its sprawling surface vehicle parking lot in East Vancouver’s ... (1/2)
... Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood ... over a thousand secured purpose-built rental homes, a childcare facility, and retail/restaurant space that includes a new replacement major grocery store … 10-minute walk from SkyTrain: (2/2)
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Ontario Construction: B.C. Housing Groups Call for Lower Building Costs, Restoration of Affordable Housing Funding - Four B.C. housing organizations are calling on all provincial election parties to commit to reducing the cost of building homes, warning that rising ... (1/2)
... expenses … the cost of land, construction, government fees, financing and regulatory delays is making projects increasingly difficult to deliver: (2/2)
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CityNews: Access to Affordable Homes Improving, But 2/3 of Torontonians Believe It’s Bad or Terrible -Torontonians believe that access to buying and renting an affordable home in their community is improving but around 2/3 still believe the access is bad or terrible ... (1/2)
... according to a new poll … 62% of those polled believed access to an affordable rental was bad or terrible, but that number is down from 78% from the previous poll: (2/2)
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Toronto Star: A 15-Storey Tower is Dividing Bloor West Village. Will the Community Be Changed Forever? - Bloor West Village is ... stocked with unique and walkable small businesses. It’s also along a major street, in an area marked for growth because it’s so close to ... (1/2)
... the subway ... a 15-storey rental tower … will replace the restaurant and two other small businesses, along with the rental apartments above them, according to the city, which has already approved the project: (2/2)
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