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Presentation | 2021
10th Annual IMFG Toronto City Manager’s Address
Chris Murray
In this presentation for the tenth annual IMFG City Manager Address, Chris Murray spoke to the urgency of a whole-of-community and whole-of-government approach to tackle the precursors of homelessness before the downstream consequences and costs multiply for all orders of government.
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Presentation | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
In this presentation, Adam Found reviewed the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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Presentation | 2021
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Hsi-Chuan Wang
In this presentation, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provided a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argued that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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Presentation | 2021
A Negotiated Approach: Evaluating Affordable Housing Outcomes from Section 37 Agreements (1988-2018)
Julie Mah
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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Presentation | 2021
Property Taxes: Effective, But Regressive? A Review of the Evidence
Devin Bissky Dziadyk
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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Presentation | 2021
Local Implications of a National Housing Strategy: The Case of Toronto
James Ankers
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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Presentation | 2021
The Role of Airports in Thriving City-Regions
Jean-Paul Addie
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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Presentation | 2021
What Do We Know about Inclusionary Zoning
Jenny Schuetz
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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Canadian Tax Journal: Enid Slack on Property Taxes in the Real World
March 6, 2023
Global News: Aaron Moore on the Performance of Winnipeg’s Mayor
March 2, 2023
TVO Today: Alexandra Flynn on What Rulings in Ontario and B.C. Mean for Homeless Encampments
March 1, 2023