Grand Rapids, Michigan scrapped single-family zoning.
affordable housing
Housing affordability was easily the top issue on the campaign trail.
The cost of buying and renting is driven upward by a scarcity of available homes.
City hall can reduce the cost of building new apartments on expensive lots by zoning for greater density.
Vancouver secured $127 million in cash or in-kind CACs in 2016.
Doug Ford pledged to “open a big chunk” of Ontario’s Greenbelt, then changed his mind.
B.C.’s NDP government plans to spend at least $6.6 billion over 10 years on social housing.
Both New York and London are more than twice as dense as Toronto.
In Toronto the approvals process costs nearly $47,000 per housing unit (on average), compared to $21,000 in Hamilton.
Toronto, Vancouver and other high-demand cities should focus on getting more housing built, at a quicker pace.