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Monitoring Progress & Activity on Twenty-One (21) sites 🏙️ proposed under the Mayor's #HousingNow plan for creating new Affordable-Rental units #TOPoli #YIMBY

Toronto, Ontario Katılım Ocak 2019
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Open Data - Toronto
Open Data - Toronto@Open_TO·
New open dataset just dropped 🗺️ Transit-Oriented Communities. Publicly owned land near transit stations being explored for housing + mixed-use development. As the city grows, knowing where density is being planned matters. Now anyone can see it. open.toronto.ca/dataset/transi…
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2/ ...noting very simple built-forms and ZERO underground parking on the new 20+ acre brownfield redevelopment at @AireParkLeeds on the south bank. Overall project will deliver approx. 110 units as "permanent #AffordableRental homes" on PRIVATE land... x.com/RoosterPR/stat…
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More than 1,400 homes and space for cultural events in major regeneration scheme in Leeds @aireparkleeds coverage in @yorkshirepost yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/more-…

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HousingNowTO@HousingNowTO·
[Leeds, UK] One of our #AffordableHousing volunteers attended the @ULI_UK tour of the new 20+ acre brownfield redevelopment at at Aire Park on Leed's south bank at @UKREiiF 2026 w/ the team from @vastintuk today. Site will deliver over 1,300+ new apartments in 2 x phases...
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Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)@ubcHART·
The cost of land can account for up to 60% of a new building's total price. Using public land for housing pulls that cost out of the equation. But governments can't act on land they can't see. (1/2)
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HousingNowTO@HousingNowTO·
@JonFraserTF As much as possible, EVERYONE should use transit, and one of the best ways to encourage that is to build new housing directly around the transit-stations on land that is "wasted" on cheap / free surface parking. 900 new homes at KENNEDY, for example... x.com/Urban_Toronto/…
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UrbanToronto@Urban_Toronto

A ground breaking ceremony took place today for Kennedy Green, Canada’s largest co-op housing project in three decades. urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/11/k… #Toronto #housing #construction

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Jon Fraser@JonFraserTF·
@HousingNowTO So nobody should use transit then. 👍
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neoliteral@ne0literal·
@HousingNowTO Setting everything else aside, if a parking lot is “jam-packed” then you aren’t charging enough to use it.
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More Transit Southern Ontario
More Transit Southern Ontario@moretransitso·
Infrastructure Ontario has released their plans for the 680 unit transit oriented community at Martin Grove LRT station. This is 1 of 4 TOCs planned at Eglinton Crosstown West extension stations. This development will have dedicated indoor bike parking for transit riders. 1/2
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UrbanToronto@Urban_Toronto·
A Transit-Oriented Community (TOC) is being proposed at the future Martin Grove station on the Eglinton Line 5 West Extension in Etobicoke, where Infrastructure Ontario plans to transform long-vacant former Richview Expressway corridor lands into a mixed-use residential block. urbantoronto.ca/news/2026/05/t…
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2/ ...just within Scarborough alone, Metrolinx owns over 30-acres of surface parking-lots at GO stations -- our HNTO volunteers toured them back in 2020... x.com/HousingNowTO/s…
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1/ Visited @Metrolinx “FREE” surface parking-lots along @GOtransitLE route in #ScarbTO. As @GOtransit moves to 15-minute service on all these stations, then acres & acres of #LazyLand need to be converted to new Transit-Oriented Development including #AffordableHousing... #TOPoli

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For the record, Metrolinx is one the largest owners of parking lots in North America, and the reason that GO Station parking lots are often FULL is because the are mostly “FREE” parking, which directly incentivizes solo-driver trips…
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Councillor Jamaal Myers, the TTC chair, has a different view. "I understand where my colleagues are coming from in that we'd like to take transit to transit, however that's just not the reality of where the city is," he says, noting that GO commuter lots are jam-packed each day.

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Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt·
Councillor Carroll asks if the part of Cheng's motion calling for commuter parking lots at all new suburban stations would be "antithetical to the planning act." Thorne says again that the Official Plan seeks to limit surface parking, and to develop the lots that currently exist.
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Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt·
Councillor Jamaal Myers asks if the city has a position on the need for commuter parking at stations outside the downtown. The Chief Planner says the official plan calls for mixed-use development near stations and limiting surface parking lots.
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HousingNowTO@HousingNowTO·
@Emilie_Dye @db_econ Happy to share our @geo_uoft | @UofTCities public and open 'Surface Parking-Lot Redevelopment' assessment & scoring tools with our Commonwealth colleagues in Australia. Let us know if you have any questions about how to adapt tools for local use... 🇨🇦🇦🇺 x.com/HousingNowTO/s…
HousingNowTO@HousingNowTO

[Toronto, ON] Our @geo_uoft Master's Students PLA1106 studio project & tools (April 2025) on "Evaluating GREEN-P Parking Lots for #AffordableHousing Development" is now PUBLIC on the @TorontoCouncil website via @UofTCities on item EX24.4 in #TOPoli. PDF - toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2…

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Emilie Dye@Emilie_Dye·
"There are more car spaces in apartment buildings in Sydney and Melbourne than there are cars owned by residents. As much as 40% of off-street car parking sits vacant each night." Another hard hitting housing report by Aruna Sathanapally, Ashleigh Chang, @db_econ and @mattdbowes. grattan.edu.au/wp-content/upl…
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HousingNowTO@HousingNowTO·
[London, UK] Building Commonwealth connections around 'UK | Canada Housing Innovation Opportunities via Modular Construction' with the Ontario Government (@ONgov) team at Canada House (@CanadianUK) on Trafalgar Square. Stay tuned for our @UofTCities MUCP project(s) in 2026/27...
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2/ ...great example of real-world Transit-Oriented Development, Smart Density and new steel-frame #ModularHousing methods of Construction from London, UK (via @tideconstruct). LINK - tideconstruction.co.uk/projects/georg…

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HousingNowTO@HousingNowTO·
For "Old Office to #AffordableHousing" conversions in Canada, our HNTO volunteers often suggest look for 1960/70's buildings w/ Medical / Dental Office uses, as built-form is usually standardized & boxy -- plus the individual units have been serviced w/ plumbing & electrical capacity...
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