2026June
"Realigning Housing Policy With Real-World Economics in San Francisco"
As the nation grapples with a housing shortage, cities must balance efforts to build new homes and achieve affordability goals with economic realities. That lesson has come to San Francisco, where planning commissioners and supervisors have come to understand that the city’s approach to encouraging affordable housing needs to change.
...More"Toronto announces 40-60% reduction in development charges"
This week, the band got together to announce a development charge reduction program here in Toronto. Basically the way it works is that the City is receiving “up to $1.5 billion for eligible housing-enabling infrastructure projects” and this, in turn, will allow the city to reduce its reliance on DCs and lower them by 40-60% (depending on the housing type) between 2026 and 2029.
...More"The great American elevator tragedy"
It has been said that the definition of a habit is that you don’t feel normal until you do it, and that’s certainly how I’ve been feeling over the last few days without writing this blog. I’ve been unusually preoccupied.
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