It's not news that renting in Toronto is miserable. It's expensive, tedious, soul-crushing, and often too hard to find a place that isn't terrible. …
The reason Toronto didn’t take the top spot is because of the amount of condo units, which are the most affordable housing option on the market at the moment. Richmond Hill is primarily low-rise housing, detached, semis, and townhomes, so the market doesn’t have the small condo uni...
We question the impact of mixed-use zoning on housing affordability in Toronto (Canada) between 1991 and 2006 in the face of waning government support for affordable housing and increasing income inequality due to the occupational restructuring accompanying a shift to a knowledge-based economy. We ...
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No longer Sukumbasis: Challenges in grassroots-led squatter resettlement program in Kathmandu with special reference to Kirtipur Housing Project The paper is the outcome of a systematic effort to study and analyze the experiences of the Kirtipur Housing Project (KHP), the first ever grassroots-led ...
11 Toronto Canada 9.3 12 Auckland New Zealand 8.2 According to the Demographia report, cities with a median price-to-income ratio of over 9.0 are considered “impossibly unaffordable”. We can see that the top city in this ranking, Hong Kong, has a ratio of 16.7. This means that the medi...
There's a saying among members of Toronto-based architecture firm Montgomery Sisam Architects: "The building has to last a hundred years," intones Enda McDonagh, one of the practice's nine principals. That ethos permeates the firm's plans for a modular, affordable housing project in the ci...
This means that the typical home price was 35 per cent higher than what a median-income household could borrow — worse in Toronto and Vancouver which posted scores of 1.71 and 1.56 respectively. Canada is less affordable than the U.S. in general when it comes to housing right now. ...
Affordable Housing investment Summit(AHIS 2019) in Africa is a leading affordable housing investment event aimed at bringing together investors, developers, policymakers, government bodies and agencies to expedite housing in Africa happening in Kenya, Na
RBC ECONOMICS Montreal losing its status as an affordable market TORONTO, May 20, 2011 — Quebec's housing market faced higher ownership costs in the first quarter of 2011, following modest declines in the latter half of 2010, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability report releas...