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City looks to explore converting office space to affordable housing

Toronto councillor Brad Bradford is proposing that the city start to move forward exploring the possibility of converting unused downtown office space into other uses such as affordable housing. The item was adopted at a recent planning and housing committee meeting and city council will vote on the item this month. “The City of Toronto … [Read more…]

Mayor Chow’s first phone call to kickstart an affordable housing strategy

The key person Olivia Chow should talk to for the provision of affordable housing is Jagmeet Singh. He might not be the prime minister, but he has a formidable card to play, the same card played by the NDP leader David Lewis in 1972. Fifty-one years ago, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was caught after the election … [Read more…]