There are many cities where fenced off houses mean they've been abandoned and condemned, and that the neighbourhood is an economically depressed area. In Toronto, it generally means that the houses are about to come down for new multi-unit residential buildings, and that the previous owners were paid a tidy sum. It's just another part of the development process, and in this case pictured on a lovely Spring day by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Towered, on Jopling Avenue in Etobicoke, an area near Kipling subway station that's seeing an enormous amount of redevelopment and intensification of land use.

Jopling Avenue homes waiting for redevelopment in Etobicoke, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Towered

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