Beautiful. Affordable. Urban. Green. Making affordable rental a great, and first, choice.
Toronto, Ontario
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Creative Housing is a non-profit designed to deliver much needed affordable, rental housing in Canada's major cities at a scale that will make a difference. #CreativeHousing #NextGenerationHousing #AffordableRental
Construction Canada: New Rental Tower Breaks Ground in Transit-Friendly Toronto Neighbourhood - A 50-storey purpose-built rental tower has broken ground at 88 Isabella St. in downtown Toronto, promising 500 residences in close proximity to Lines 1 and 2 of the TTC ... (1/2)
... Amenities will include an outdoor terrace surrounding the base of the tower, a south-facing outdoor pool, a fitness studio and spa, and a children’s room. Co-working spaces for groups and individuals include double-height ceilings: (2/2)
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Urbanized: Five Towers with 1,000+ Homes Proposed for Safeway Site on Kingsway in Vancouver - A major high-density, mixed-use redevelopment could replace the old suburban-style Safeway grocery store and its sprawling surface vehicle parking lot in East Vancouver’s ... (1/2)
... Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood ... over a thousand secured purpose-built rental homes, a childcare facility, and retail/restaurant space that includes a new replacement major grocery store … 10-minute walk from SkyTrain: (2/2)
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Ontario Construction: B.C. Housing Groups Call for Lower Building Costs, Restoration of Affordable Housing Funding - Four B.C. housing organizations are calling on all provincial election parties to commit to reducing the cost of building homes, warning that rising ... (1/2)
... expenses … the cost of land, construction, government fees, financing and regulatory delays is making projects increasingly difficult to deliver: (2/2)
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CityNews: Access to Affordable Homes Improving, But 2/3 of Torontonians Believe It’s Bad or Terrible -Torontonians believe that access to buying and renting an affordable home in their community is improving but around 2/3 still believe the access is bad or terrible ... (1/2)
... according to a new poll … 62% of those polled believed access to an affordable rental was bad or terrible, but that number is down from 78% from the previous poll: (2/2)
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Toronto Star: A 15-Storey Tower is Dividing Bloor West Village. Will the Community Be Changed Forever? - Bloor West Village is ... stocked with unique and walkable small businesses. It’s also along a major street, in an area marked for growth because it’s so close to ... (1/2)
... the subway ... a 15-storey rental tower … will replace the restaurant and two other small businesses, along with the rental apartments above them, according to the city, which has already approved the project: (2/2)
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Storeys: ow Olivia Chow And Brad Bradford Plan To Address Toronto’s Housing Woes - Under Chow’s lead, housing has shifted ... toward a more public, city-led development model. Since Chow took office in 2023, 5,271 city-owned housing units have broken ground ... (1/2)
... including 1,680 affordable units ... with a goal of delivering 65,000 rent-controlled homes ... Bradford ... favouring partnering with experienced non-profit and market builders who he believes can build housing faster and cheaper: (2/2)
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Urbanized: B.C. Developers and Housing Non-Profits Unite in Election Push to Cut Construction Costs - Private developers and non-profit housing organizations in BC have joined forces ahead of the provincial general election, warning that rising costs are preventing them ... (1/3)
... from building homes across a wide range of price points ... their shared concern is that the total cost of building housing has climbed beyond what many market buyers can afford and what government subsidies can cover for lower-income renters ... they face many of ... (2/3)
... the same expenses, including high land acquisition costs, construction costs, borrowing costs, and government-imposed development levies and fees, as well as financial costs associated with permitting delays: (3/3)
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Connect Canada CRE: $185M Federal Loan Backs 474-Unit Toronto Rental Tower - broken ground on a 474-unit rental tower in Toronto’s Flemingdon Park neighbourhood, advancing the first phase of a larger redevelopment backed by $185M in federal construction financing … (1/2)
... The 38-storey tower is the first of three phases in a planned 2,300-unit redevelopment near Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East, directly across from the future Flemingdon Park station on the Ontario Line: (2/2)
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Global: Toronto Voters Want Action on Affordability, Housing Ahead of Municipal Election - Chow’s key promises include measures to help lower grocery prices in the city, free lunches in schools and building more affordable housing units, while Bradford has pledged ... (1/2)
... to freeze property tax rates ... The homelessness crisis is another key issue ... but Toronto’s 10-year plan to open more shelters ... with some living in communities hosting them raising safety concerns: (2/2)
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Globe and Mail: Vanishing Population - Over the past half-century, both the Vancouver and Toronto regions have doubled in population. But ... analysis of census data shows that within these growing metropolises, there are … established areas where populations have ... (1/2)
... fallen as much as 40% ... That is because governments rarely ask a fundamental question: Where do we have unused capacity? Many urban neighbourhoods have water systems, roads, parks and schools that were built for larger populations than today’s: (2/2)
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