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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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In this presentation, Graduate Fellow Devin Bissky Dziadyk reviews the decades of research on the property tax, and provide new estimates of the incidence of the tax in Canada.
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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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In this presentation, Jean-Paul Addie examined what we can learn from city-regions from around the world and their relationship with the airports that act as economic hubs for their regions. He is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University.
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Jenny Schuetz is a senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings who is an expert in urban economics and housing policy, focusing particularly on housing affordability. She presented her research which evaluated how well IZ worked in three US regions (San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC area, and Boston suburbs) to generate more affordable housing and create mixed-income communities.
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Fei Li is an Assistant Professor at the Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University (Atlanta) with a research focus on inclusionary housing policies. She presented her research which evaluated how well IZ worked in London (UK) to generate more affordable housing and create mixed-income communities.
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This presentation revisited Canada’s history of successful tri-level agreements between federal, provincial, and municipal governments on issues from homelessness to economic development. Working from his recent IMFG paper, Dr. Bradford showed how these agreements offer a model for a more collaborative form of policymaking that includes all orders of government.
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This presentation examined the impacts of regeneration initiatives on housing affordability in Detroit. It analyzed how property tax abatements, housing subsidies and demand-side incentives can help to stabilize neighbourhoods and spur redevelopment activity, but also contribute to gentrification pressures and potential displacement.
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