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housing shortage

MZOs necessary due to speed of approvals: RESCON

Building Sep 17, 2021

The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) has issued a statement voicing it’s disappointed at a recent Ontario Divisional Court ruling which indicates that the provincial government erred in failing to consult the public…

Urban Planning

New housing plan requires Brampton to kick its addiction to single family homes

Isaac Callan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter May 19, 2021

THE POINTERIn Brampton, the cost of a house has been rising dramatically for years. By the time council ordered staff in 2017 to search for a solution, the average price of a house in the city was closing in on $700,000. It had…

Construction

3D printed home in Dutch city expands housing options

The Associated Press Apr 30, 2021

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers' new home is a 94-square meter (1,011-square foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows.The curving lines of its gray concrete walls look and feel natural. But…

Construction

Ontario’s tighter rules allow builders to keep working on condos, other jobs

Anita Balakrishnan – THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan 14, 2021

TORONTO – Ontario's new COVID-19 emergency measures don't prevent construction from continuing on many developments, including condos.Residential Construction Council of Ontario president Richard Lyall said the exception is important…

Real Estate

Toronto Ontario Airbnb tribunal upholds Toronto rules on short term rentals city

Ian Bickis – THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov 18, 2019

TORONTO – An Ontario tribunal has upheld rules passed by the City of Toronto on short-term rentals like Airbnb.The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal said in a ruling released Monday that it has dismissed an appeal by several residents who…

Real Estate

Montreal says nearly 100 households without apartments on moving day

The Canadian Press Jul 2, 2019

MONTREAL – Nearly 100 households are still looking for housing in Montreal as tens of thousands of Quebecers are on the move for the province's traditional moving day.City Coun. Craig Sauve says that as of Sunday night, 94 households…

Urban Planning

How a Montreal neighbourhood’s activists changed Quebec and Canada

By Morgan Lowrie – THE CANADIAN PRESS Jun 17, 2019

MONTREAL – The Pointe-St-Charles neighbourhood is isolated from the rest of Montreal by the Lachine Canal and the railroad, meaning that for years it was the kind of place that many people, even other Montrealers, never visited.But…

Real Estate

Protesters denounce Montreal’s housing shortage, pointing to condo boom, Airbnb

The Canadian Press Jun 17, 2019

MONTREAL – A Montreal-based tenants' rights group led a demonstration on June 15 in the city's Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood to protest a housing shortage, which it blames partly on the condo boom, real estate speculation and short-term…