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The club district has it's issues, but I think the choice of building a shelter in the middle of it was an irresponsible one. Queen Street west has it's fair share of YWCA centres, drug addiction centres, and youth hostels that it didn't need this. How much more of a concentration of drug...

The area is riddled with shelters and 'services' (i'll leave it at that). Regent Park isn't going to improve anytime soon. The hookers and crack heads will simply have to walk on the other side of the street now.

Shuter and Sherbourne! :D Bwahahahahah!!! Okay, maybe not :P

I was looking for a pre-construction building 2 month's back and was shocked by prices. You're much better off taking your down payment and flipping resale homes in the time it takes the condo to be built. I put a $50k downpayment on my unit and I didn't move in for almost 4 years. Yes...

We survived the Brian Wilson tax, David Miller tax, and we're going to assume that if interest rates stay down then we'll be fine. I'm not confident abou this. No, none of the builders or union guys I know were talking about the land transfer tax.

The concept of inclusionary zoning rings a bell. Is the Daniels project in Regent Park an example of this? As for profits, my builder did some pretty sneaky things to ensure they made good on our building. I won't get into details, but the developer is Diamante. Don't trust these guys.

I find many of your architects, developers, property investors and real estate agents on this website to be very clique and you guys like to insult people. The word you like to call people is 'troll'. Often times you just laugh off people's opinions and gang up on them. Back to my...

I have many family members that are in the building trades and they keep telling me that the HST is going to really hurt the construction industry in Toronto including building of new condos and houses.

Toronto doesn't need to give lower to middle class families more reasons to move to Peel or elsewhere. If the city wants to take away a family's car by making it cost prohibitive to drive, then they better well ensure there is easy and accessible transit. In comparison to cities I travel...

Sorry, I meant DRL. I don't like DRL, if we build that it will give the federal and provincial governments more excuses to say 'look what we did for you' when in fact we deserve much better for years: a proper underground subway system. Toronto is bloody cold, people are much more likely to...

We all live under rules and restrictions. The builders have way too much power in the cities. In my opinion an easy way around this is for the city to put restrictions on the type of units they're building. Just like the city restricted builders from where they build, they should now...

The builders are making incredible money at what they're charging per square foot and could charge less. If they did, people would consider purchasing a 3 bedroom unit for example. For pete's sake, they're buying pie-in-the-sky!! I can't believe that it costs that much more to build in the...

How about contracting the TTC out of business? Maybe they should be run as a business. Since city hall can't get the TTC unions under control, why don't they create a competing Transit company? Has this idea ever been considered? A non-unionized, semi-private system for example. Limit...

Transit by far 'should' be the most important issue. Toronto's downtown population is extremely dense and the residents deserve a better transit system. From not enough subway lines in the city core to the disjointed system outside the city, we deserve better. Someone needs to stand up to...

My niece lives in Newcastle, I know it well. It's far, very far. I can't do the surburban living thing. I'm trying to buy into it, I almost did once but backed out. The closest I got was buying a house in Scarborough in the late 90s. I wanted to end my life. Sorry, but what an awful...

Excellent post, Second_in_pie. I have a kid on the way soon and currently live in a 700 square foot condo. I would be happy to raise my child in a condo but there isn't anything available. I did find some apartment conversions in the outskirts of Toronto for a decent price, but they are in...

We do need to change what we are doing and start institutionalizing the most dangerous people. The practice of locking them away was discontinued mostly because of cost and not because a lack of liberties - but I'm sure the cost of homelessness and increased violence may be higher. The...

I would add more subway lines downtown. We have the population density to support it: Queen St would be a start.

Yes, I am. And there is plenty of evidence out there that points to the reasons, and none of them have to do with adequate or nutritious food. Most die of illnesses attributable to alcohol and smoking-related diseases and to violence and injuries, much of which are related to substance...

True, but as a Torontonian, I'm a helluva lot more afraid of a desperate kids with guns than I am of Russian gangsters. Next time you're in New Jersey (for example) try driving up to Russian gangsters at 2 am in an isolated parking lot if lost, they give excellent directions. :D