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IMFG Paper | 2021
Indigenous-Municipal Legal and Governance Relationships
Doug Anderson and Alexandra Flynn
A new IMFG paper looks at evolving Canadian municipal relationships with Indigenous Peoples and calls attention to an urgent need to review Indigenous-municipal relationships across Canada.
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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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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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IMFG Paper | 2021
Addressing the Fairness of Municipal User Fee Policy
Almos Tassonyi and Harry Kitchen
User fees are one of the principal funding mechanisms for a range of municipal services, from water and waste management to transit and recreation. New IMFG paper explains why user fees are a good source of revenue for municipalities, how they are employed in Ontario, and how to navigate the trade-off between efficiency and fairness.
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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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IMFG Paper | 2021
Developing Air and Land Control at Toronto’s Airport
Nick Lombardo
New IMFG paper explores how the development of Toronto’s Pearson Airport catalyzed informal regional governance and planning processes in the Toronto area.
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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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