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In this video of the 10th Annual IMFG City Manager's Address, Chris Murray spoke to the urgency of a whole-of-community and whole-of-government approach to tackle the precursors of homelessness before the downstream consequences and costs multiply for all orders of government.
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In this presentation, Adam Found reviewed the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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In this video, Adam Found reviews the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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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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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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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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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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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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