Toronto is embracing multiplexes as a tool to increase the housing supply in Canada's largest city. Yet questions remain as to how much new housing will actually emerge from this policy change and how affordable it will be.
Despite the challenges, some people are already contacting construction professionals about building multiplexes— including those at Toronto's BVM Contracting, a family-run company providing home-building and home-renovation services.
The transition to larger low-rise buildings will be "a learning curve for everyone involved," he said, as more people seek to build them and more designers and builders tackle them. "Is it going to solve the affordable housing problem in Toronto? No," said Londerville, who believes multiplexes can nonetheless help make certain neighbourhoods more affordable.Living on the edge of homelessness and facing evictionVancouver’s single-room occupancy buildings are often seen as the last stop before homelessness, but they’re starting to disappear as private owners see more profit elsewhere.
"Most of our density is being crammed into small areas of land," Burda said of downtown neighbourhoods full of high rises. "The rest of the city is kind of like a sea of low-rise housing" that is ripe for change, she said.Sesame Street
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