HousingNowTO
Senior Member
The City of Toronto almost never needs to BUY land. The City and it's agencies are absolutely swimming in wasted "Lazy Land", like these Green-P sites.She's not a "so-called" expert, and is a huge supporter of affordable housing. She's certainly not opposed to upzoning in general. She's outlining the issues w/how the city is going about this....... and she's not wrong, this time.
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A lot of so-called zoning reform advocates, don't seem to understand how the real world works.
See garden/laneway suites..........and the whopping six that have been or are being created thus far...... none affordable.
Turns out the effect of change is not always what you think or hope it will be...........
However much I support Melissa on her "Buy Old Low-Rent Apartment Buildings" (eg. MURA) point-of-view - for sites like the one below --
https://beachmetro.com/2024/02/13/g...helps-secure-20-permanently-affordable-homes/
...we disagree fairly-strongly on her concerns about upzoning and in-fill density permissions around EHON.