@toronto.ca #shelter run by @homesfirst.bsky.social Reports of no running water, showers, toilets for days. Why are people not relocated?
@ausmalik.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca fyi

@mark-carney.bsky.social promised 500,000 annual housing starts within a decade. @beynate.bsky.social

@liberalca.bsky.social have a One Million New Homes Program - the starts required to reach that goal.

Here’s what it would take to get there. @thestar.com

www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

@mark-carney.bsky.social promised Canada half a million new homes a year within a decade.

Here’s what it would take to get there. @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Canada's Conservative Party promised even more starts in half the time!

@mark-carney.bsky.social promised Canada half a million new homes a year within a decade.

Here’s what it would take to get there. @thestar.com

‘It’s like turning the Titanic around,’ say industry players.

www.thestar.com/real-estate/... @thestar.com @beynate.bsky.social

Amid record homelessness, a Texas think tank tries to upend how states tackle it The conservative Cicero Institute is working with states to ban street camps, and shift money away from housing to addiction treatment. Homelessness advocates says such moves are counterproductive.

When Ford and Poilievre talk about criminalizing encampments, and conflate "addiction" with homelessness, know that this rhetoric comes from the billionaire-owned American think tank the Cicero Institute, whose policies have been adopted by Donald Trump. www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1...

The renderings were released as a part of a Site Plan Approval application for phase one of the highly anticipated co-op housing project — Canada's largest.

Full story: loom.ly/Kutgwlw

#Toronto #Torontorealestate #realestate #realestatenews #housing

A million more housing starts in 5 years?

Approx 1.3 Mil starts expected by 2030 based on 2014-24 trend.
@PierrePoilievre program claims a GST reduction, "encouraging cities" & sale of federal land will result in 1 Mil more market housing starts.

How realistic is this?
#elxn45

November 10, 1998
@cityoftoronto.bsky.social Big fail. @cp24-rss.bsky.social

Armine Yalnizyan: This is war. Time for a wartime funding mechanism: Victory bonds We can build resilience, trust and pride through government action. Here's a three-point plan to do so — and it's not through tax and spending cuts, Armine Yalnizyan writes.

"So far, the two front-runners in a race to stave off the first direct economic and political attack Canada has faced in our history as a nation have proposed … tax cuts and spending cuts." What about... www.thestar.com/business/thi...

Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
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Neil Young & Friends - Rockin' In The Free World / O Canada (Live 8, Barrie, Canada, 2005) YouTube video by Alt Zapping

Canada’s Neil Young - Keep on Rocking in the Free World / O’Canada Concert in Barrie, Ontario 2005 #Canada 🟥🍁🟥

youtu.be/8ouSPCDvjV4

How Can Canada Make Housing Affordable? | The Agenda YouTube video by TVO Today

With a housing crisis and a looming trade war, what’s the federal government’s plan? @spaikin.bsky.social sits down with Housing Minister Nate Erskine-Smith to discuss affordability, homelessness, and the future of housing in Canada.

Watch now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=safv...