More Neighbours Toronto
@moreneighboursto.bsky.social
Toronto's pro-housing movement.
More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
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Join us on December 6th at 6pm for the annual MNTO Holiday Party & AGM.
Board Applications are open! Check details in link for application information. Can't wait to see everyone there!
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Join us on December 6th at 6pm for the annual MNTO Holiday Party & AGM.
Board Applications are open! Check details in link for application information. Can't wait to see everyone there!
mailchi.mp/moreneighbou...
Un exemple, pour les autres
Here's the latest in Calgary's rezoning/HAF funding story... COO walks councillors through multiple touch points outlining funding risk. #yyc #yyccc #calgary
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Dalgleish shows multiple points when council was informed of HAF funding risk - LiveWire Calgary
Calgary’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) outlined how city administration consistently informed city council of the risk to the final payments of the Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF), refuting any…
livewirecalgary.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Un exemple, pour les autres
Small 4-6 unit multiplexes shouldn't require the same governance and reserve requirements as 200-unit condos.
Other jurisdictions (including BC) have simpler, more lightweight ownership structure for small multi-residential buildings. ON and Toronto should take a look!
Other jurisdictions (including BC) have simpler, more lightweight ownership structure for small multi-residential buildings. ON and Toronto should take a look!
Multiplexes are finally legal to build in Toronto, but the rules for how they can be owned and sold haven't caught up.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Small 4-6 unit multiplexes shouldn't require the same governance and reserve requirements as 200-unit condos.
Other jurisdictions (including BC) have simpler, more lightweight ownership structure for small multi-residential buildings. ON and Toronto should take a look!
Other jurisdictions (including BC) have simpler, more lightweight ownership structure for small multi-residential buildings. ON and Toronto should take a look!
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Pie and YIMBYism. Yum.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Pie and YIMBYism. Yum.
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Renters are the backbone of the rental market. Don’t get it twisted.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Renters are the backbone of the rental market. Don’t get it twisted.
Handy feature from the City Hall Watcher newsletter (consider subscribing if you're city politics nerd!) on where Toronto's housing growth is going.
You will not be SHOCKED where it's concentrated.
You will not be SHOCKED where it's concentrated.
Check your inbox: it's City Hall Watcher #359!
A look at how each ward is doing on housing starts — and whether councillors and MPPs in Toronto are on track to hit the provincial housing target by 2031. Also: a classic Ford fact-check.
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A look at how each ward is doing on housing starts — and whether councillors and MPPs in Toronto are on track to hit the provincial housing target by 2031. Also: a classic Ford fact-check.
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Handing out some housing report cards
City Hall Watcher #359: Some charts of which wards are contributed to Toronto's housing starts. Plus a provincial perspective and a Ford fact check
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November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Handy feature from the City Hall Watcher newsletter (consider subscribing if you're city politics nerd!) on where Toronto's housing growth is going.
You will not be SHOCKED where it's concentrated.
You will not be SHOCKED where it's concentrated.
Local Toronto root-rock band, @jenschaffer.bsky.social, is sharing the holiday love with us and some other housing focused organizations!
Their new song, "Homes for the Holiday", is being dedicated to shine a light on the work being done by us, @housingrightsca.bsky.social, and the CAEH (caeh.ca).
Their new song, "Homes for the Holiday", is being dedicated to shine a light on the work being done by us, @housingrightsca.bsky.social, and the CAEH (caeh.ca).
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Local Toronto root-rock band, @jenschaffer.bsky.social, is sharing the holiday love with us and some other housing focused organizations!
Their new song, "Homes for the Holiday", is being dedicated to shine a light on the work being done by us, @housingrightsca.bsky.social, and the CAEH (caeh.ca).
Their new song, "Homes for the Holiday", is being dedicated to shine a light on the work being done by us, @housingrightsca.bsky.social, and the CAEH (caeh.ca).
We support housing of all types. You can too.
More and more people want encampments evicted. Neighbourhood groups are suing shelter providers. Now, they're attempting to stop supportive housing in Parkdale. You can't have all three!
Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
Please sign and share in support of PARC and supportive housing! tinyurl.com/parcpetition
Build Supportive Affordable Housing at 1499 and 1501 Queen West
The City of Toronto, and Canada as a whole, is in an unprecedented affordable housing crisis. Many struggle to find safe and stable housing in Toronto and Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) wa...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We support housing of all types. You can too.
The first single stair approval under Toronto's Alternative Solution Proposals! This will allow more livable space in the units while maintaining fire safety through sprinklers and other measures. Thanks to @pamelablais.bsky.social for persisting & everyone at the City who helped to make it happen.
Update on my single exit stair ASP: we have an approval!
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.
I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.
#singlestair #sixplex
I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.
#singlestair #sixplex
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The first single stair approval under Toronto's Alternative Solution Proposals! This will allow more livable space in the units while maintaining fire safety through sprinklers and other measures. Thanks to @pamelablais.bsky.social for persisting & everyone at the City who helped to make it happen.
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I told my students about the north york secondary plan last week on our field trip up there. I should be applied to the whole city. Where condo meets sidewalk can be actually great cuz of it.
If you're interested in making this spine a little chunkier, the latest on the North York Secondary Plan should be at Planning and Housing Committee on December 3rd. No new details available yet but opposition from the low-rise Neighbourhood is expected.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I told my students about the north york secondary plan last week on our field trip up there. I should be applied to the whole city. Where condo meets sidewalk can be actually great cuz of it.
If you're interested in making this spine a little chunkier, the latest on the North York Secondary Plan should be at Planning and Housing Committee on December 3rd. No new details available yet but opposition from the low-rise Neighbourhood is expected.
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you're interested in making this spine a little chunkier, the latest on the North York Secondary Plan should be at Planning and Housing Committee on December 3rd. No new details available yet but opposition from the low-rise Neighbourhood is expected.
queue the lamentations for the "heritage parking lot authority that's the heart of our community"
"If she wants it, Chow has an avenue before her that could solve a large measure of her immediate fiscal problems, serve the city’s larger environmental goals, and improve its fiscal position over the long term. She just needs to destroy the Toronto Parking Authority." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
ANALYSIS: Destroy the Toronto Parking Authority | TVO Today
Want an easy way to ease the housing crisis, pad the city budget, and keep property taxes low?
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November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
queue the lamentations for the "heritage parking lot authority that's the heart of our community"
Last week: Neighbourhood retail is maintaining pre-amalgamation divides in Toronto.
This week: Minimum lot sizes are an outdated artefact of pre-amalgamation zoning that divides Toronto.
We wrote to the province on Bill 60 to support the removal of minimum lot sizes.
This week: Minimum lot sizes are an outdated artefact of pre-amalgamation zoning that divides Toronto.
We wrote to the province on Bill 60 to support the removal of minimum lot sizes.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Last week: Neighbourhood retail is maintaining pre-amalgamation divides in Toronto.
This week: Minimum lot sizes are an outdated artefact of pre-amalgamation zoning that divides Toronto.
We wrote to the province on Bill 60 to support the removal of minimum lot sizes.
This week: Minimum lot sizes are an outdated artefact of pre-amalgamation zoning that divides Toronto.
We wrote to the province on Bill 60 to support the removal of minimum lot sizes.
The province's actions, together with it's inability to build or encourage necessary housing, is setting us up for a massive social deficit.
When affordable housing or rent becomes so difficult to find, we're pushing people onto the streets, into the hospitals, and into the morgues.
When affordable housing or rent becomes so difficult to find, we're pushing people onto the streets, into the hospitals, and into the morgues.
#Bill60 will likely be passed this week, and it will grow homelessness across Ontario — something our food banks, shelters, and municipalities do not have the resources to address.
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The province's actions, together with it's inability to build or encourage necessary housing, is setting us up for a massive social deficit.
When affordable housing or rent becomes so difficult to find, we're pushing people onto the streets, into the hospitals, and into the morgues.
When affordable housing or rent becomes so difficult to find, we're pushing people onto the streets, into the hospitals, and into the morgues.
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This will not be news to regular readers, but it's worth noting whenever Toronto council debates housing (or transportation or neighbourhood amenities) that just three of the 25 wards absorbed three-quarters of the city's population growth between 2016 and 2021
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This will not be news to regular readers, but it's worth noting whenever Toronto council debates housing (or transportation or neighbourhood amenities) that just three of the 25 wards absorbed three-quarters of the city's population growth between 2016 and 2021
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Yesterday I sat for a lecture by 3 folks from ReHousing. Hosted by UofT's school of Arch, they detailed the history of change in Toronto, how post-war suburbs rubber-stamped neighbourhoods as repetitive as a 100 floor condo does today, horizontally, & how for half a century we've seen near no change
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yesterday I sat for a lecture by 3 folks from ReHousing. Hosted by UofT's school of Arch, they detailed the history of change in Toronto, how post-war suburbs rubber-stamped neighbourhoods as repetitive as a 100 floor condo does today, horizontally, & how for half a century we've seen near no change
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“New small shops and cafés will once again be allowed to open inside some of Toronto’s neighbourhoods, reversing decades of strict planning policy that kept businesses out of residential areas.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New shops and cafés can open in Toronto neighbourhoods decades after being outlawed | CBC News
New small shops and cafés will once again be allowed to open inside some of Toronto’s neighbourhoods, reversing decades of strict planning policy that kept businesses out of residential areas.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“New small shops and cafés will once again be allowed to open inside some of Toronto’s neighbourhoods, reversing decades of strict planning policy that kept businesses out of residential areas.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Thank you to everyone who wrote in and helped Toronto get this far, especially to @anotherglassbox.bsky.social for all of his work.
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thank you to everyone who wrote in and helped Toronto get this far, especially to @anotherglassbox.bsky.social for all of his work.
Can we have varied types of housing across the affordability spectrum throughout Toronto?
No.
Can we have tasty patties without driving to the plaza, as a treat?
Also, no.
No.
Can we have tasty patties without driving to the plaza, as a treat?
Also, no.
Councillor Shan moves to exclude three streets in his ward. He worries the retail spaces created won't just be small shops selling ice cream to locals, but things like "beef patties that are so popular that people from the 905 will come to get it." That'll just add to traffic problems, he says.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Can we have varied types of housing across the affordability spectrum throughout Toronto?
No.
Can we have tasty patties without driving to the plaza, as a treat?
Also, no.
No.
Can we have tasty patties without driving to the plaza, as a treat?
Also, no.
The problem with this impressive sounding number is that we've arrived at it mostly by the drop in **total** housing being built in the city.
Yes, in a historic downturn it's good that municipal government is helping to pick up the slack, but these are not positive stats.
Yes, in a historic downturn it's good that municipal government is helping to pick up the slack, but these are not positive stats.
Formally introducing the Planning & Housing items on the agenda, committee chair Councillor Gord Perks highlights a factoid: "As of today, 65% of all housing under construction in the City of Toronto is either led by the City of Toronto or has the City of Toronto as a partner."
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The problem with this impressive sounding number is that we've arrived at it mostly by the drop in **total** housing being built in the city.
Yes, in a historic downturn it's good that municipal government is helping to pick up the slack, but these are not positive stats.
Yes, in a historic downturn it's good that municipal government is helping to pick up the slack, but these are not positive stats.
A Minister's Zoning Order being used to block housing, not fast-track it.
“Obviously, it's not really in line with the priority of building homes. But then it also sends a message to anyone looking to build that this could happen to them,” [MNTO member] Bailey said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“Obviously, it's not really in line with the priority of building homes. But then it also sends a message to anyone looking to build that this could happen to them,” [MNTO member] Bailey said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A Minister's Zoning Order being used to block housing, not fast-track it.
“Obviously, it's not really in line with the priority of building homes. But then it also sends a message to anyone looking to build that this could happen to them,” [MNTO member] Bailey said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“Obviously, it's not really in line with the priority of building homes. But then it also sends a message to anyone looking to build that this could happen to them,” [MNTO member] Bailey said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Yes, it seemed like the developer put forward a proposal to improve biodiversity, expand trail access in the area, work with indigenous groups and build homes. All supposedly City aims but they have been fighting against the project since October 2023. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yes, it seemed like the developer put forward a proposal to improve biodiversity, expand trail access in the area, work with indigenous groups and build homes. All supposedly City aims but they have been fighting against the project since October 2023. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
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The City also argued that the Flemingdon Golf Course "offers an ecological function...maintaining diversity within a highly urbanized environment." I'm sorry, what?! The OLT rightly shot this down. Trees cut down for golfing will be replanted, greatly improving river health and wildlife habitat.
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The City also argued that the Flemingdon Golf Course "offers an ecological function...maintaining diversity within a highly urbanized environment." I'm sorry, what?! The OLT rightly shot this down. Trees cut down for golfing will be replanted, greatly improving river health and wildlife habitat.
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3 councillors opposing 6 storeys near Islington station. Time for all three to go.
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
3 councillors opposing 6 storeys near Islington station. Time for all three to go.
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One last shoutout. Toronto City Council will consider appealing this OLT decision this week, a development which could unravel the property fabric extending into the East Don Valley and open trail and wildlife access to 16 hectares of land. Please tell your councillor not to appeal this. #TOpoli
I am reading an OLT decision from last week for 155 St. Dennis Drive and geez, I'm shaking my head.
High density form, proximate to rapid transit and 95% of the land dedicated as parkland in the Don Valley. Seems like huge wins all around.
Why did the City of Toronto bother to fight this?!
High density form, proximate to rapid transit and 95% of the land dedicated as parkland in the Don Valley. Seems like huge wins all around.
Why did the City of Toronto bother to fight this?!
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One last shoutout. Toronto City Council will consider appealing this OLT decision this week, a development which could unravel the property fabric extending into the East Don Valley and open trail and wildlife access to 16 hectares of land. Please tell your councillor not to appeal this. #TOpoli
Neighbourhood Retail is coming up before Toronto City Council this week. If you want to see it happen, send a note of support to your Councillor (toronto.ca/councillors) AND [email protected]
I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
When even the humble corner store is impossible to open in Toronto, it’s a sign of something deeply wrong
We need to accept that Toronto is now a big city.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Neighbourhood Retail is coming up before Toronto City Council this week. If you want to see it happen, send a note of support to your Councillor (toronto.ca/councillors) AND [email protected]