1/ [Toronto, ON] Thanks to @jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social & #CollecdevTO for inviting our @uoftcities.bsky.social #MUCP students to attend yesterday's "CANADA BUILDS MODULAR SUMMIT 2025" and to showcase our #HousingInnovation work & projects on new in-fill #AffordableHousing developments in Toronto

[Toronto, ON] Our @torontomet.bsky.social Masters Studio student team's project on the ALLEN EAST DISTRICT is now featured in @ontarioplanners.bsky.social magazine, starting on PG 38 - ontarioplanners.ca/OPPIAssets/I... These are surplus @toronto.ca lands next to #Downsview, managed by @_CreateTO .

This article - featuring quotes from one of our board members @cbailey6.bsky.social, and from @housingnowto.bsky.social - explores possible ramifications to the TDSB real estate portfolio in light of the province imposing supervision over the board. thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...

I met with leaders from @housingnowto.bsky.social on affordable housing and the Canadian Urban Transit Association on strengthening public transit across the country.

Sad I didn’t make it to #YIMBYtown this year, but at least I can relive the magic through my coffee mug. @housingnowto.bsky.social @russilwvong.bsky.social @nzorach.bsky.social

Sept 12 - [Toronto, ON] Kicking-Off today’s #MissingMiddle Conference 2025 with a full-day of speakers from Industry, Government and Community-Partners… 👷🔑#MMC2025 EVENT - themmc.ca

[Toronto, ON] Sunday visit to the #TTC HQ lands at DAVISVILLE subway station w/ Sue Chen from "Housing Development & Revitalization" at @toronto.ca to talk about the 2023 plans for redeveloping the area inside the PMTSA w/ @uoftcities.bsky.social colleagues...🏗️🔑 x.com/HousingNowTO...

[Toronto, ON] Attended this week's ground-breaking at @Fengate & @LIUNA's new transit-oriented apartment development near the WESTON & MOUNT DENNIS transit stations. The Dennis, provides 448 x new rental apartments including 89 x #AffordableRental units! h/t @urbantoronto.bsky.social

Toronto is opening the door to taller, denser housing near transit: ▫️ 30-storey towers within 200m ▫️ 6-storey apartments on side streets ▫️ 4-storey apartments within 800m But will this really speed up construction? #housing #realestate #housingcrisis

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[Toronto, ON] Launching another great year of new-build #AffordableHousing development & innovation site-assessments w/ our new HNTO Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project (#MUCP) student team for the 2025-2026 school year at @uoftcities.bsky.social! 🤓🌟 MUCP - t.co/e25YN18eNC

[Etobicoke, ON] Great to have Ontario Housing Minister @RobFlackEML join us on a development site-tour of @Windmill_Green's new 9-storey / 60-unit #MassTimber, mixed-use apartment building w/ 🇨🇦 Made-in-Canada #GreenBuilding tech from @IC_Vancouver ... x.com/Urban_Toronto/…

We will unfortunately NOT be attending #YIMBYtown this year, due to the mid-September 2025 dates conflicting with HNTO’s on-campus commitments for students at @uoftcities.bsky.social & @torontomet.bsky.social.🇨🇦 Hopefully future YIMBYtown events will be held in Winter / Spring months again… 🗓

[Toronto, ON] "...we grow the lumber here, we harvest the lumber here, we make the panels here, we make the steel here, we recycle the steel here, and it becomes the kind of housing you are seeing behind me..." - HNTO on @CBCToronto #MassTimber #AffordableRental www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI5O...

[Scarborough, ON] New #AffordableRental apartment opportunity is now OPEN at Pharmacy & Finch. Twenty-Four (24) x #AffordableHousing units in 1, 2 & 3- Bedroom floorplans via #HousingLottery in #TOPoli. 📍DEADLINE to submit an application is SEPT 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM (EDT).

[Toronto] “The City-owned site at 275 Merton St, near Davisville & Yonge, was used by Toronto Water for office space & parking. But soon it will be 447 new purpose-built rental homes. 30% of them will be affordable” @mayoroliviachow.ca @jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

[Toronto, ON] Our #AffordableHousing volunteers' response to the BUILD CANADA HOMES market-sounding was submitted last-week, and is now available to read as a PUBLIC PDF document -> drive.google.com/file/d/1HcIF... Thanks to everyone who has engaged w/ our teams! x.com/HICC_ca/stat...

Put on my blue @housingnowto.bsky.social Tshirt to discuss mentorship opportunities this coming school year for capstone projects at @uoftcities.bsky.social #AffordableHousing

[Vancouver, BC] “…an empty residential building is sometimes less costly for the owner than a building filled w/ tenants who, if the property is redeveloped, may require compensation according to city policy, as well as BC RTB rules...” - @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

[East York, ON] Good to see “Coach Nate” being a Dad & Team-Builder this Summer..!💚⚾️ When the NEW #ModularHousing building in the background was 1st proposed for #RapidHousing back in 2021 — local #NIMBY voices warned that it would be a “REAL danger to kids in the area!”…😤😵‍💫

100% CORRECT — we talked a lot about the required “Cat-Wrangler” skills needed to make new build #AfffordableHousing development projects successful in Toronto over-and-over at this week’s #AMO2025 conference in Ottawa — with private & gov colleagues from all over Ontario…

[Ottawa, ON] Great panel w/ Andrew Boozary MD & ‪ @namshine.bsky.social talking about this smart #ModularHousing project in #Parkdale w/ @uhn.ca , #FredVictorTO & @toronto.ca at #AMO2025 -- "Innovative Approaches to Supporting Mental Health & #SupportiveHousing"...

[Ottawa, ON] Starting our day at #AMO2025 w/ the Ontario Long-Term Care Association (@oltcanews.bsky.social ) breakfast - "USE THE DATA : Unlock Local Seniors' Care Solutions" - like our HNTO #YIMBY volunteers do to SUPPORT new #LTC developments in Toronto whenever #NIMBY folks protest...

[Ottawa, ON] Great to connect w/ Ontario opposition leader @maritstilesndp.bsky.social at #AMO2025 today to talk about ways to innovate and solve the crisis in #AffordableHousing, #StudentHousing, #WorkforceHousing & #SeniorsHousing in our Greater-Toronto area using Provincial lands & tools…🏗️

[Aug 18] Good morning, Ottawa..! Looking forward to another productive day discussing innovative #AffordableHousing development solutions with all 3-levels of Government at the #AMO2025 Conference today..!

One of the key things that our #AffordableHousing volunteers will be talking about at the #AMO2025 Conference in Ottawa this week, with updated data from recent reports by @CHFCanada , @unitedwaygt.bsky.social , @CivicActionCA, @ubchart.bsky.social & @uoftcities.bsky.social …

"Housing in Ontario is at a breaking point and the private sector alone can’t fix it, says new research from the United Way Greater Toronto and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada." @thestar.com www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

[Calgary, AB] Great site-tour today during the #ModularHousing on-site assembly week by @AttainableHomes of their new #AffordableHousing development in downtown Calgary… 🏗️👷‍♂️🔑

[Calgary, AB] “We're going to be able to rent every single studio unit, 84 studios in there, for under $1,100 a month.” - @AttainableHomes on #ModularHousing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

[Toronto, ON] Why do Landlords offer "incentives" to attract new tenants for empty apartments rather than lowering the asking-rents..? 1.) Incentives are a "one-time benefit" - and do NOT lower the overall value of the building. 2.) Incentives are considered a "marketing" cost.

It remains one of the most baffling parts of the system that public pension plans invest in #housing that is not affordable to their members. buff.ly/kUf5nO0

When members of Ontario's municipal employee pension (one of the largest plans in Canada) retire, they will receive on average $33,769 annually, so even 2 pensioners could not afford a studio apartment from OMERS-backed Oxford Properties in Toronto. #onpoli #pensions

"Even the most efficient for-profit developers cannot house the lowest-income Canadians at truly affordable rents without public support. Doubling down on market supply without a smarter strategy will not deliver real affordability." buff.ly/5sdoRZU

Posted this on Twitter for impact but figure folks here would like to see it too: yesterday toured the new shelter that's in the news for making a certain demo of neighbours mad. Unsurprisingly, it's awesome. I'm gonna show you why.

[Toronto, ON] Packed table for this morning’s “HNTO #AffordableHousing Community Networking Breakfast” before today’s PLANNING & HOUSING COMMITTEE meeting at Toronto City Hall. Connecting not-profits, advocacy organizations & private-sector partners to deliver new apartments…💚

1/ Closing-Out #ACTION2025 Conference w/ "LT-26: On the Ground Tour of #AffordableHousing Projects on Toronto’s Waterfront" for @CIP_ICU & @OntarioPlanners delegates w/ @HousingNowTO volunteers, @uoftcities.bsky.social & @WaterfrontBIA guides... SESSION INFO - site.pheedloop.com/event/action...

Being built using a prefabricated mass timber system, Hälsa on Royal York Road is making construction progress. urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/07... #Toronto #architecture #construction

[Etobicoke, ON] The WINDMILL, LEADER LANE and INTELLIGENT CITY teams are already up to the 4th floor on their new HALSA #MassTimber purpose-built rental apartment development near #MIMICO GO Train Station...

[Toronto, ON] Unspoken context is that these "pre-approved garden suite" designs are fundamentally for a new-build Studio / Motel apartment, that if built from a pre-manufactured kit could be rented out for target market rent ~$1,100 CDN per month... 🧮 toronto.ca/services-pay...

[Toronto, ON] "..a prime 3.5-acre parcel of transit-served development lands on the northeast corner of Shuter and Parliament – a for­mer school – is spending anoth­er season chained off from the community..." - via @thebridgenewsTO #AffordableHousing thebridgenews.ca/time-to-unlo...

[Toronto, ON] "No one at City Hall seemed willing to say what should be obvious: A city cannot solve a housing crisis by pretending it lives in 1973..." - @alexbozikovic.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com on #TOPoli & the #HousingCrisis www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

[Manchester, UK 🇬🇧] No #HousingNowTO visit to a City is really completed, until we visit a “Parking-Lot in a Transit-Oriented neighbourhood that is being CLOSED”, removed and replaced w/ new Housing..! This one is part of the SISTER redevelopment lands. sistermanchester.com

1/ [Manchester, UK 🇬🇧] Our volunteer Technical-Lead, @mjrichardson_to is starting a busy day at #Housing2025 conference w/ a @StarlingBank Bike ride to a @BeeNetwork travel node next to the venue.Checking lots of boxes for @uoftcities.bsky.social colleagues… ✅ x.com/starlingbank...

[Manchester, UK] Kicked-Off the #Housing2025 Conference week on Monday afternoon with an excellent group walking-tour of redevelopment sites, #AffordableHousing and #WorkforceHousing regeneration areas near the @Housing_Event conference venue - housingevent.com/housing-2025

[Manchester, UK] At #Housing2025 Conference, this new research report - "Realising the 1.5-MILLION : Reliably Delivering Homes, Infrastructure & Communities" - will sound very familiar to our #AffordableHousing colleagues in Canada... 🇬🇧🌐🇨🇦 PDF - omghcontent.affino.com/AcuCustom/Si...

"THE SLOW CRAWL OF CITIES ON HOUSING REFORM : In Toronto, after years of debate over allowing multiplexes in residential neighbourhoods, a committee voted overwhelmingly this month to loosen the rules..." - @theglobeandmail.com editorial board on #TOPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

"THE HOUSING CRISIS AND ITS ARCHITECTS" - Erected by Toronto Future Heritage Society - Saving us from those who are “saving Toronto” SOURCE - www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co...

[Toronto, ON] New #HousingLottery for #WorkforceHousing apartments is underway in #Etobicoke w/ 87 #AffordableRental on offer via a random draw - 1-BDRM (540 sqft) = $1,630/mth 2-BDRM (727 sqft) = $1,859/mth 📍Deadline to register: Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 at 5:00 PM (Eastern)