Zoë Coombes @ZoeCoombes
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Those concerned with strains on our electrical grid, because of climate change challenges should be all in for small lot urban apartments. Stair reform to allow for cross ventilated apts, common in Europe, is key…
Those concerned with strains on our electrical grid, because of climate change challenges should be all in for small lot urban apartments. Stair reform to allow for cross ventilated apts, common in Europe, is key…
For generations we’ve sorted kids into material vs the theoretical careers not based on career matching via psychological wiring- but by a distorted vision of class. We’re desperate for kids who are interested in things. Find them, support them, value them.
For generations we’ve sorted kids into material vs the theoretical careers not based on career matching via psychological wiring- but by a distorted vision of class. We’re desperate for kids who are interested in things. Find them, support them, value them.
@marymargaretbey Your reminder that @PaulCalandra and the Ontario PCs could amend and approve the Bathurst (and other) MTSAs that have been sitting on his desk since January 2022. That would allow this building to be built today for $0 cost to taxpayers. x.com/scottaaitchiso…
@marymargaretbey Your reminder that @PaulCalandra and the Ontario PCs could amend and approve the Bathurst (and other) MTSAs that have been sitting on his desk since January 2022. That would allow this building to be built today for $0 cost to taxpayers. x.com/scottaaitchiso…
Addicted to a zero sum economy. Unequal opportunity to fund retirement. Ooof this is not the way Canada.
Addicted to a zero sum economy. Unequal opportunity to fund retirement. Ooof this is not the way Canada.
And when a culture makes a fundamental wealth inequality by supporting a scarcity driven appreciating asset, it is absolutely logical to not want to rent, and to not want to find oneself on the losing side!
And when a culture makes a fundamental wealth inequality by supporting a scarcity driven appreciating asset, it is absolutely logical to not want to rent, and to not want to find oneself on the losing side!
Really interesting thread. Big question- do we want employers chasing Canadians who are leaving cities seeking housing and settling in diffuse, sprawled patrerns? Or do we want to allow people to *connect* and share infrastructure via an open, elastic city?
Really interesting thread. Big question- do we want employers chasing Canadians who are leaving cities seeking housing and settling in diffuse, sprawled patrerns? Or do we want to allow people to *connect* and share infrastructure via an open, elastic city?
“… we also need to ask what actually makes sense given demand.” 🎯
“… we also need to ask what actually makes sense given demand.” 🎯
This👇 is why we have a housing crisis. Yes, new luxury condos don't directly help the typical person. But they do help indirectly: (1) by preventing the rich from competing for existing housing. (2) by making homes available when people move in and vacate their previous unit.
This👇 is why we have a housing crisis. Yes, new luxury condos don't directly help the typical person. But they do help indirectly: (1) by preventing the rich from competing for existing housing. (2) by making homes available when people move in and vacate their previous unit.
How single-family zoning screws over renters for the benefit of mansion-buyers:
I’ve said it before— “Definancialized” Good job Toronto. 👏
I’ve said it before— “Definancialized” Good job Toronto. 👏
@vb_jens @ZoeCoombes Very very very much agree. Im actually very worried that multiplexes are becoming a crutch for politicians to do the minimal possible. This track is going to actually fail to do much and potentially lead to a backlash. I see far too many "mission accomplished" signs flying…
This needs to be a totally overused phrase because it’s key to so much of Toronto’s creativity and construction blockages.
This needs to be a totally overused phrase because it’s key to so much of Toronto’s creativity and construction blockages.
“…supertalls essentially convert housing and buildings into financial assets," Says *University of Toronto, Daniel’s School of Architecture, professor*. What house, (what building?) is not a “financial asset”? Honestly, the Architecture Department at U of T, is a problem.
“…supertalls essentially convert housing and buildings into financial assets," Says *University of Toronto, Daniel’s School of Architecture, professor*. What house, (what building?) is not a “financial asset”? Honestly, the Architecture Department at U of T, is a problem.
This is the most important map in Toronto.
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@marymargaretbey Your reminder that @PaulCalandra and the Ontario PCs could amend and approve the Bathurst (and other) MTSAs that have been sitting on his desk since January 2022. That would allow this building to be built today for $0 cost to taxpayers. x.com/scottaaitchiso…
The Liberals sent $471 Million to Toronto gatekeepers - and they still block housing. Paying for promises is not going to work. Conservatives will get more homes built by rewarding real results. #cdnpoli
I’m all for supporting first time home buyers if ownership is desired- BUT, I think Canadians have distorted thinking on renting vs owning. What we all want is not *own your own home* as much as *own in a supply constrained market*, ie: a passive, wildly profitable, investment.
@MikePMoffatt My folks bought a house in Markham for $575K in 1990. Sold it for $420K in 2004! Thats’s the invincible GTA. Real estate people said the same stuff back them. Tons of immigrants coming so prices will always go up. That’s a big hit after inflation and opportunity cost.
@ZoeCoombes Someone at the Calgary rezoning deputations argued against the rezoning because their parents relied on their home's value to fund their old age care and this person planned to do the same. We've gotten ourselves so turned around that people are dependent on the inequality.
Funniest part of this whole debate is that if you abolished the greenbelt AND city planning then you would end up with more city and less sprawl.
@ChrisSpoke The basic social contract of the Greenbelt was ‘don’t build sprawl, build a city’. The idea that the shortest of infill rental homes would be blocked by Greenbelt advocates for the sake of their own backyard, is maddening. The Greenbelt is good. This is so toxic to social trust.
Although the nuance is particular to “Tchoronno”, this is a North American disease that is suppressing everyone’s opportunity.
@ChrisSpoke The basic social contract of the Greenbelt was ‘don’t build sprawl, build a city’. The idea that the shortest of infill rental homes would be blocked by Greenbelt advocates for the sake of their own backyard, is maddening. The Greenbelt is good. This is so toxic to social trust.
@ZoeCoombes It's interesting how people have a strong intuition that renting is inherently exploitative. But buying involves *renting* money from a bank (getting a mortgage) and people don't have quite the same intuitions of being exploited there.
@ZoeCoombes Which suggests people aren't inherently opposed to renting so much as renting without benefitting from expected appreciation.
@MikePMoffatt @carastern Not against this but I think there's an advantage to the HAF paying for land use reforms. If they pay per home, Toronto is still going to avoid putting these 10 units in "Neighbourhood" and will opt to put the new homes in 50 storey buildings at North York Centre. It's their way.
@_ChanFace Not bad but it will never be not crazy to me how much housing we’re putting right next to highways because it’s not allowed elsewhere.
@JohnLorinc The Committee of Adjustment (and how it works) is derivative of city policy. So yes, the CoA is still city hall gatekeeping.
Getting my sever year chip tonight. About half way to being sober for longer than I drank.
Yes 👇
Legalize simple, beautiful, mid-block buildings everywhere 🤩
@meredithmartin The ol' GB Shaw strategy. We need more unreasonable people.
Legalize simple, beautiful, mid-block buildings everywhere 🤩
The relevant question is about people's experiences and options: Who is being prevented from living somewhere, or somehow, they would otherwise choose to live? When you frame it that way, then it's clear that "shortage" really means "spillover." Displacement, if you will.
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Can confirm it is wonderful (the black ones in the graphic below are e-bikes); been taking bike share e-bikes to and from work most days and it is a dream.
Forget cherry blossoms, the surest sign of spring is that @BikeShareTO just released hordes of e-bikes into the network. I love this system so much.
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