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Video | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
In this video, Adam Found reviews the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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Video | 2021
Indigenous-Municipal Relations in Canada: Where Do We Stand?
In this video, Doug Anderson and Alexandra Flynn discuss some of the key questions on the way to improved Indigenous-municipal relationships. Working from their paper for IMFG, Anderson and Flynn look at how Indigenous-municipal relations can move forward in a reciprocal and respectful manner.
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Video | 2021
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Hsi-Chuan Wang
In this video, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provides 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 argues 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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Video | 2021
A Negotiated Approach: Evaluating Affordable Housing Outcomes from Section 37 Agreements (1988-2018)
Julie Mah
In this video 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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Video | 2021
Property Taxes: Effective, But Regressive? A Review of the Evidence
Devin Bissky Dziadyk
Graduate Fellow Devin Bissky Dziadyk reviewed the decades of research on the property tax, and provide new estimates of the incidence of the tax in Canada. Most estimates suggest that the property tax is regressive. If so, what does the regressivity of the property tax imply for cities, and do we need to reform the property tax to make it fairer?
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Video | 2021
Local Implications of a National Housing Strategy: The Case of Toronto
James Ankers
In this video presentation, Graduate Fellow James Ankers examined the implications for Toronto of recent national re-engagement in housing policy. He analyzed major elements of the National Housing Strategy, assessing how it differs from previous housing policy efforts, 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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Video | 2021
The Role of Airports in Thriving City-Regions
Jean-Paul Addie
In this webinar, 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. His presentation was followed by a panel discussion including Lloyd A. McCoomb (former President and CEO of GTAA), Pamela Blais (Metropole Consultants) and Josh Neubauer (Urban Strategies). Moderated by Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director of School of Cities.
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Video | 2021
Inclusionary Zoning: Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Toronto
Jenny Schuetz, Fei Li, Deanna Chorney, Jeanhy Shim, Susannah Bunce
Toronto’s Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) policy will go before City Council this year. The IZ tool has produced new affordable housing by compelling developers to set aside a portion of their new housing units as affordable housing in the US and the UK. In this video, we learn what lessons can help inform the implementation of IZ in Toronto.
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