Richard White
Senior Member
I actually agree with his vote on renaming the subway stations
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I actually agree with his vote on renaming the subway stations
Dan416
Senior Member
I can get behind renaming Dundas West as Roncesvalles, but renaming Dundas is definitely dumb. The real Dundas West would be St. Patrick anyway.
T3G
Senior Member
But would people assume "Roncesvalles" refers to the neighbourhood, or the street that starts more than a quarter of a kilometre away?
What good are unique station names if they can be confused with other things still?
Richard White
Senior Member
Northern Light
Superstar
Ok.... lets switch topics, LOL.........
The Mayor did a year-end interview with Spacing.
The interview concluding with a discussion of housing and CMHC.
It would appear, that @HousingNowTO , myself, and many others lobbying may have actually gotten somewhere useful.........
Too bad we weren't there 5 years, ago, we might have occupancy for several hundred affordable units and a few thousand market-rate, purpose built rental units occupied as well; but better late than never.
The interview can be found here:
The Mayor did a year-end interview with Spacing.
The interview concluding with a discussion of housing and CMHC.
It would appear, that @HousingNowTO , myself, and many others lobbying may have actually gotten somewhere useful.........
Too bad we weren't there 5 years, ago, we might have occupancy for several hundred affordable units and a few thousand market-rate, purpose built rental units occupied as well; but better late than never.
The interview can be found here:
A year-end interview with Mayor Olivia Chow - Spacing Toronto
With the final council session of the year now in the rear-view mirror, Mayor Olivia Chow is spending part of this week powering through year-end interviews with City Hall reporters. Although she expended some of her political capital on files like Ontario Place (she agreed to halt the planning...
spacing.ca
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turini2
Active Member
And on that note....
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Good news morning. City of Toronto getting $117-MILLION per year in Federal GRANT (non-repayable) for the next 4-years... if they meet their new HAF threshold of meeting a -
TARGET (2024) # of "net new housing units building-permitted" including HAF support = ~1,694 net new building permits per month.
Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) Annual Period (2024 - 2026 calendar years) :
• # of new housing-units building-permitted without HAF support – 49,200 (16,400 per year)
• # of new housing units building-permitted with HAF support - 60,980 (20,327 per year)
Annual increase of 3,927 additional new housing units building-permitted with HAF support per year, and increase of 24% over pre-HAF targets.
Northern Light
Superstar
The money is good; but won't change the number of housing units built.
To do that, in the current interest rate environment will require a hell of a lot more money.
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
They are all aware of that. This is the "down-payment" only... this is just "table-stakes", etc.
Towered
Superstar
That guy must be tall!
EagleEye
Senior Member
People in his ward HATE condos. Of course many of these people live in a house with maybe 1 or 2 other people and take up a lot of space in their corner of Scarborough. A lot of them also pretend to be advocating for people who buy condos and commiserate with the fact that they're so small. So he's going to be popular in Ward 20.
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
CBC - "Toronto will receive $471-MILLION in federal funding to build new homes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office announced Thursday. The money is coming out of Ottawa's Housing Accelerator Fund and should help Toronto accelerate the delivery of around 12,000 new units over three years, Trudeau said at an announcement in Toronto."
QUOTED - "...The City of Toronto needs to be receiving upwards of one to two BILLION dollars a year in both grants and loans in order to make these programs work - and deliver the affordable housing that we need..."
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
THE STAR (Podcast) - Mayor Olivia Chow on a very unexpected year
The mayor sits down to look back on a year where she came out of political retirement to lead Toronto.
www.thestar.com
The mayor sits down to look back on a year where she came out of political retirement to lead Toronto.
Mayor Olivia Chow on a very unexpected year
The mayor sits down to look back on a year where she came out of political retirement to lead Toronto.
www.thestar.com
DSC
Superstar
Fellow infrastructure nerds may be interested in learning that the City has added 2025 projects to ToInView. https://map.toronto.ca/toinview/ Clearly 2025 projects are not all input yet but ....