Category: Housing
Baranyai: Attitudes also a contributor to housing crises
This year, trade instability and high construction costs delivered a tranquilizer dart to the home-building industry.
Letters to the Editor: June 25, 2025
A Free Press reader writes to say he was fortunate to have purchased Tom Benner’s last life-size sculpture, a polar bear.
Goodbye parking lots, hello housing? City politicians await builders’ pitches
Developers will be able to pitch their ideas for housing on a city-owned parking lot in Old East Village this summer after politicians were urged to slow the process down and do more consultation. Initiated by Mayor Josh Morgan through a strong mayor order last year, city hall staff had begun looking at the potential […]
$4.8M funding boost for historic SoHo supportive housing project
A building in London’s SoHo neighbourhood that was built in 1921 and once housed Western University medical students is getting a new lease on life as highly supportive housing units, with the help of an anonymous donor who pledged $4.8 million in capital funding and up to $1.1 million in matching funding in support of […]
London builder offers huge mortgage break to homebuyers as sales lag
Grappling with a larger-than-usual inventory of unsold homes amid a market slowdown, a London developer is offering up to $100,000 in zero-interest loans to help first-time homebuyers snatch up some of its properties.