Tag: affordable housing
Tribunal over Old East highrise: What, exactly, does ‘affordable’ mean?
Stephen Giustizia said he had sticky notes counting down the days until people could move into 13 affordable apartments in a trio of Old East Village highrises about a year ago.
City hall planners defend benefits that earned developer extra height, units
Two London city hall planners took the stand Tuesday at a provincial tribunal hearing, batting back claims a major developer got permission to build a taller-than-allowed tower without enough public payoff.
Old East tower plan doesn’t merit concessions from city hall, tribunal told
Exactly what constitutes a public benefit, which builders promise to provide the community in exchange for taller, or more dense, developments was at the heart of a five-day hearing that opened Monday.
ANALYSIS: What, exactly, is an ‘affordable’ apartment unit?
On paper, it’s a showdown between a London homeless shelter and a major developer.
Rising costs make building affordable housing difficult: developer
A developer who’s seeking to build 829 housing units on land across from Georgian College told city council Monday he’ll make housing there “as economical as possible” but he’s never seen construction costs soar like they continue to do. Shakir Rehmatullah, president of Flato Developments, made the comments in response to affordability concerns raised by […]