‘This is preventive medicine’: Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent via @manuelavega.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

Canadian developer Pinnacle International is holding off on plans to demolish the Toronto Star’s old office building at 1 Yonge St. in fresh hopes of converting the existing building into a luxury hotel. @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Fixed mortgage rates are likely at their “lowest point this year,” experts say @thestar.com www.thestar.com/business/fix...

Despite the Ford government’s decision not to change security of tenure rules for now, Bill 60 would still “whittle down” tenant rights at the Landlord and Tenant Board, advocates say My latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Doug Ford ending automatic tenancy extensions would be ‘devastating’ for Ontario renters, advocates warn My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

After tearing down an encampment outside a church last week, the City of Toronto dropped large concrete blocks and erected metal fencing on the site — next to blocks and fencing it had placed there two years prior. @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

The City of Toronto, accompanied by police and security guards, cleared an encampment outside the Church of Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields near College and Augusta streets on Thursday, after a fire hazard order from the fire department. @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

A new CBC investigation reveals that Canadian charities continue to fund organizations, including the Israeli military, that support the ever-expanding settlements in the West Bank. “We are financing war criminality through our charitable system." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Days after the City of Toronto brought in heavy machinery to clear a homeless encampment at Dufferin Grove Park, city staff and private security on Wednesday cleared the park again after people had promptly returned. Six people were arrested @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...

Ontario’s public servants have been ordered back to the office. So why will Landlord and Tenant Board hearings stay virtual? Legal clinics have been expressing their concerns for years. My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/ont...

Nearly a third of people who have been homeless were evicted at some point, a series of CMHC reports on eviction found www.thestar.com/news/gta/nea...

Independent UN commission finds that’s Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza *since* October 7. The report was limited to Gaza, but raises the “serious concern” that Israel intends “to destroy the Palestinians as a whole.”

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

Are REITs good for housing? CMHC says we need more, raising concerns among some housing experts My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

About 100 Thorncliffe Park households have reached an agreement with Starlight Investments, seemingly ending a lengthy public battle that saw the working-class tenants withhold rent from Canada’s largest private landlord for two years. My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Trump administration restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants means nearly all would be refused

Groups representing about 90,000 Ontario realtors are calling on the province to reform the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) after the government said Thursday it would intervene in an “extensive review” of the regulator. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Starlight investments, Canada‘s largest private landlord, often dramatically increases eviction applications after acquiring buildings, study finds My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Financial firms in Toronto pursue evictions more often than any other type of landlord in the city, a groundbreaking new study has found My latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

A Palestinian engineering student was accepted to U of T in 2024. He’s still stuck in Gaza awaiting a visa By Nathan Bawaan for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-p...

Toronto’s renoviction bylaw takes effect Thursday. Here’s how the city aims to prevent landlords from evicting tenants in bad faith @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

About 100 Thorncliffe Park households awaiting an eviction decision over a two-year rent strike say they rejected their landlord’s final settlement offer because it would “silence” them if future issues were to arise. My latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/ten...

‘Not just a housing crisis downtown.’ How Toronto’s sixplex vote pushed more density in the same areas From Victoria Gibson and me for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

The fate of more than 100 East York households on rent strike now rests with the Landlord and Tenant Board after eviction hearings for the unusual case came to a close last week. Here’s what each side had to say @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/mor...

Even though rent prices in Toronto and across Canada have declined in recent months, many renters are spending less on food and accumulating debt to make their monthly payments, a new report says. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

A real estate investment firm bought this aging, “luxury” building. Since then, tenants say they’ve faced frequent water shutdowns and changes that have made them feel they’re being squeezed for profits and pushed out of their rent-controlled apartments. @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Nearly half of low- and moderate-income tenants in Canada lack air conditioning, most often because it’s too expensive, according to a survey conducted by ACORN Canada My latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

About 44 per cent of low- and moderate-income tenants in Canada lack access to air conditioning, according to a new survey, with cost cited as the most common barrier.

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP “Orders often came from the top, and at times nearly every platoon used a Palestinian to clear locations, said an Israeli officer” apnews.com/article/isra...

Financial landlords — like real estate investment trusts, asset managers and private equity firms — are more aggressive on raising Toronto rents than other landlords, a new study has found @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Toronto Fire ordered their landlords to comply with the fire code. Now, these tenants fear losing their affordable rentals for good My latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

ICYMI, rent prices in the Toronto-Hamilton area are continuing to dip. Here’s why — and how long you can expect it to last For @thestar.com www.thestar.com/business/ren...

In dealing with density, Toronto is unique. It’s one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, building around a mostly postwar design. Some ideas for better vertical living that we can borrow from other cities in my latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

A new condo multiplex in Toronto has exclusively two-bedroom units — all sold separately for about $1 million each. It’s the first in a series of “missing middle” developments by builder Urbinco. My latest for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Landlords are offering free months of rent, complimentary Wi-Fi and Presto cards to attract new tenants. Here’s why and what renters should keep in mind for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...