Search Results for: Infrastructure and Housing
IMFG Paper | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
New IMFG Paper explores whether development charges impede housing affordability and finds they actually improve it once a larger municipal context is considered.
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Video | 2021
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Hsi-Chuan Wang
In this video, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provides a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argues that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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Presentation | 2021
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Hsi-Chuan Wang
In this presentation, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provided a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argued that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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Perspectives Paper | 2021
Evictions in Toronto: Governance Challenges and the Need for Intergovernmental Cooperation
Julie Mah
New IMFG paper examines the eviction crisis in Toronto and illustrates the need for improved cooperation between municipalities and the province on policies that control rental housing.
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Video | 2021
A Negotiated Approach: Evaluating Affordable Housing Outcomes from Section 37 Agreements (1988-2018)
Julie Mah
In this video presentation, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Julie Mah presented preliminary findings from her research on Section 37 agreements from 1988 to 2018 that contain affordable housing benefits to understand the housing outcomes achieved through Toronto’s negotiated and incentive-based approach.
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Presentation | 2021
A Negotiated Approach: Evaluating Affordable Housing Outcomes from Section 37 Agreements (1988-2018)
Julie Mah
In this presentation, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Julie Mah presented preliminary findings from her research on Section 37 agreements from 1988 to 2018 that contain affordable housing benefits to understand the housing outcomes achieved through Toronto’s negotiated and incentive-based approach.
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IMFG Paper | 2021
Developing Air and Land Control at Toronto’s Airport
Nick Lombardo
New IMFG paper explores how the development of Toronto’s Pearson Airport catalyzed informal regional governance and planning processes in the Toronto area.
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Presentation | 2021
Local Implications of a National Housing Strategy: The Case of Toronto
James Ankers
This presentation by Graduate Fellow, James Ankers, examined the implications for Toronto of recent national re-engagement in housing policy. It analyzed major elements of the National Housing Strategy and explored the new policy tools and approaches the federal government is using to engage local partners in the development and management of new housing stock.
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