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A breakthrough on affordable housing

March 16th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

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An overdue reform called inclusionary zoning stands to transform affordable housing by giving cities power to force developers to build low-income units

It’s being called a “transformational” change, and for once that’s no exaggeration. If Toronto had the power to require developers to build more low-income housing, it could have seen 12,000 new affordable units built in the past five years. Instead, fewer than 3,700 were put in place.  Read the rest of this editorial at The Toronto Star…

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