- 1. Ford to reward developers if they build “affordable” houses and apartments (under $1,034,000)
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- Developers will not pay a cent towards the cost of providing roads, water and sewage and other key infrastructure needed to service new developments providing the housing is “affordable”. In York Region ...
- Created on 19 December 2022
- 2. Affordable Housing
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- I want to see more affordable housing in Newmarket - and across York Region. We are in the middle of a housing crisis. Too many people can't afford to put a roof over their head. House prices here ...
- Created on 02 October 2022
- 3. Deerfield Road and affordable housing in Newmarket
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- ... more affordable housing by giving municipalities the ability to require that affordable units are created in new residential developments. “Inclusionary zoning is a planning tool that allows municipalities ...
- Created on 16 April 2018
- 4. Affordable Housing and the Green Lane Secondary Plan
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- The lack of affordable housing in Newmarket and elsewhere in York Region is a big issue that is not going to disappear any time soon. Newmarket’s planners say the 35% affordable target set by the Region ...
- Created on 26 February 2018
- 5. Redwood on Yonge and Affordable Housing
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- ... over, perhaps, ten years. There are no plans for any of the apartments to be marketed as "affordable" using the affordability figure published annually by York Region. In 2016 it stood at $1,496 per month. ...
- Created on 13 November 2017
- 6. Affordable Housing - a little less conversation, a little more action
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- There is something surreal about watching a debate in York Regional Council about affordable housing. It is a very clubby atmosphere and disagreements, where these exist, are expressed gently. The ...
- Created on 13 November 2016
- 7. When can we expect ultra-fast and affordable broadband?
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- ... the Intelligent Community Movement. The Broadband Advisory Task Force is supposed to complete its work within 24 months. It will then be wound up. Van Bynen promises ultra-fast affordable broadband ...
- Created on 03 April 2016
- 8. Unaffordable Housing
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- At York Region’s Committee of the Whole (11 June) The Region’s Chief Planner, Valerie Shuttleworth, takes us through the paper “Affordable Housing Measuring and Monitoring Guidelines”. But first, her ...
- Created on 12 June 2015
- 9. Affordable housing in Newmarket is simply unaffordable
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- Only 8% (or 21) out of 277 new housing units completed and sold in Newmarket last year were deemed “affordable” according to a report going to York Region’s Committee of the Whole this week (11 June 2015). ...
- Created on 08 June 2015
- 10. Is Affordable Housing Unaffordable?
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- ... at the Committee of the Whole on 6 March 2014 that staff is working “to come up with a more practical definition of affordability”. She says the definition has to be meaningful. At the moment, “affordable” ...
- Created on 09 March 2014
- 11. Affordable Housing that is out of reach
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- Slessor Square says it is making proper provision for affordable housing in its proposed giant development on Yonge opposite Upper Canada Mall. They are simply following the provincial definition of affordability. ...
- Created on 09 May 2012
- 12. Affordable housing?
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- Does the Slessor Square development deliver affordable housing? Curiously, there was no mention of affordable housing in the original Slessor application that went before the Council in November last ...
- Created on 23 February 2012
- 13. Affordable housing must be part of Slessor Square
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- ... who liked to garden. Accepting money instead of a parkette doesn't help those who will live in this development. I said the town will be ill-served if none of the units are affordable. This kind of ...
- Created on 15 February 2012
- 14. Housing the homeless: the case against Tom "not in my patch" Mraka
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- ... is provincial jurisdiction. Perhaps language such as “affordable housing” or “housing with support services on site” might be acceptable. Wayne Emmerson: OK. Mayor Taylor: And my other question is, ...
- Created on 13 April 2024
- 15. Allow municipalities to build new homes for people in housing need says Richmond Hill’s Joe DiPaola
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- ... the field to the private sector which is, for a million and one reasons, happier building monster homes rather than the more modest affordable ones. The Man with the Plan Step forward Joe Di Paola, ...
- Created on 07 April 2024
- 16. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Developer Michael Rice makes no mention of a second Southlake when asking for Bathurst lands to be removed from the Greenbelt
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- ... residential units and affordable/attainable housing". The servicing arrangements make no provision for a major hospital. Ryan Amato Elsewhere... I wrote to the Integrity Commissioner on 1 October ...
- Created on 30 October 2023
- 17. The Greenbelt Scandal: Why the RCMP should interview Steve Pellegrini under caution
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- ... have to start moving. The same thing comes with homes and affordable homes. Everybody’s talking about it. But we gotta get shovels in the ground and we gotta get movin’ on some of these things quickly. ...
- Created on 12 October 2023
- 18. York Region has enough housing approved or in the pipeline to meet Ford's targets without building on the Greenbelt
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- ... (3+ bedroom), and the average price for a leased single or semi- detached unit ranged from $3,100 (3-bedroom) to $4,700 (5+ bedroom), both of which are well above regional affordable rental thresholds ...
- Created on 02 September 2023
- 19. Dawn Gallagher Murphy gives boilerplate response to constituents concerned about the Greenbelt
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- ... worsen the housing supply and affordability crisis, particularly for young families and newcomers who will see the dream of home ownership slip further away. My Comment: Dawn is unable to define "affordable". ...
- Created on 25 August 2023
- 20. Ford sends in the auditors to check Newmarket’s finances
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- ... by affordable housing? Definition of housing affordability The Province used to define maximum housing affordability (as set out in the Provincial Policy Statement 2020) as 30% of the gross household ...
- Created on 26 July 2023
- 21. Taylor says Del Duca's attack on York Region's planners is unnecessary, derogatory and inaccura
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- Vaughan Mayor and former Leader of the Ontario Liberals, Steven del Duca, today accused York Regional planning staff of trying to create a role for themselves if a much touted municipal reorganisation ...
- Created on 29 June 2023
- 22. Newmarket to get 15,000 new neighbours and a new acute hospital and Tom Vegh has “Nothing to report”
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- ... report on housing and another on affordable housing. Clearly, there’s a lot of stuff happening that is passing Tom by. “There’s really nothing to report.” Like Tom, I am lost for words. 93NyqDs_K3c ...
- Created on 26 June 2023
- 23. Timeline: Southlake and the sale of the Greenbelt lands in King
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- ... 2022: Blog. Lands will be returned to the Greenbelt in construction hasn’t started by 2025. 19 December 2022: Blog. Ford to reward developers if they build affordable housing. 19 December 2022: Follow ...
- Created on 09 June 2023
- 24. Why did Doug Ford give John Taylor a public dressing down?
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- ... Ford’s housing plan”. But municipalities are agreed that more housing is needed. The question at issue is where the housing should go and whether it is affordable. Consultation cut short The legislation ...
- Created on 25 March 2023
- 25. Question: Who needs Election Debates? Answer: We all do
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- ... on who they think is the best person to tackle problems such as poverty, affordable housing, jobs, transit, crime, access to services and more. Despite criticism from many commentators, debates count.” ...
- Created on 16 March 2023
- 26. Ford slashes Developers' fees and transfers cost to Taxpayers
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- ... the gap getting wider it is there for all to see. Define Affordable Wide ranging exemptions from DCs will cover “affordable” residential units and “attainable” residential units and some other categories ...
- Created on 04 February 2023
- 27. Steve Pellegrini and the removal of land from the Greenbelt
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- ... and the development will have high environmental standards. It also asks for 25 per cent of the units to come there be dedicated as affordable housing. The township’s resolution on the Southlake site also ...
- Created on 01 February 2023
- 28. Ford apologist Maurizio Bevilacqua gives advice on “playing within the rules”
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- ... we've been four years ago. Right. I can tell you that in the public… their narrative is a very simple one. Right. We're making changes because we want to create more affordable housing. So their messaging ...
- Created on 15 November 2022
- 29. Meeting the voters In Bristol Road
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- ... isn’t one damn thing that you can do for me that will make a difference to my life.” I tell myself: "Oh yes there is". I turn round and walk away. That made a difference to his life. Affordable ...
- Created on 15 October 2022
- 30. "Don't tell me they don't expect something in return": Why municipal election candidates in the 905 are refusing lucrative donations from develop
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- ... but believes there needs to be responsible development, such as affordable housing. He says the city’s priority shouldn’t be to make developers richer, but to make the city livable for its residents. ...
- Created on 20 September 2022
- 31. Frank Talking about Taxing Empty Properties
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- ... they're not fully (occupying it)?” His colleagues guffaw when he says this. He tells them not to laugh. A Tax to Support Affordable Housing The staff report recommends that revenues from a Vacant ...
- Created on 17 October 2021
- 32. Tony Van Bynen’s record in the House of Commons
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- Newmarket-Aurora’s former MP and now Liberal candidate, Tony Van Bynen, told us affordable housing would be one of his top priorities. But the record shows he hasn't mentioned it in the House of Commons ...
- Created on 07 September 2021
- 33. Tony Van Bynen MP: the first year
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- ... for electing him and focussed on his priorities: I have heard very clearly that our community is concerned about climate change, affordable housing, infrastructure funding, health care and a need for ...
- Created on 25 October 2020
- 34. Use it or lose it. Planning approvals should be time-limited.
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- ... a sin when so many people in Newmarket are crying out for affordable accommodation. It's not against the law but it is clearly against the public interest. Once planning approval is granted it “attaches” ...
- Created on 26 July 2020
- 35. Tony Van Bynen sets out his priorities in first speech in the House of Commons
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- Newmarket-Aurora’s new MP, Tony Van Bynen, yesterday made his first speech in the House of Commons. The self-styled “Voice for Fiscal Prudence” told fellow MPs that climate change, affordable housing, ...
- Created on 12 December 2019
- 36. The case for prosecuting the developer Bob Forrest
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- ... that intensification was the next logical step. There's a real need for affordable options in housing accommodations for young people - as we've heard tonight. Those who want to buy a home and those wh ...
- Created on 25 November 2019
- 37. Newmarket-Aurora candidates ask: Are you middle class?
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- ... many people. She says the NDP is pledged to build 500,000 new affordable homes over five years. Tony Van Bynen mentions 212 Davis Drive - Newmarket’s first rental unit in twenty years. He looks at ...
- Created on 09 October 2019
- 38. Candidates battle to be heard at Aurora election debate
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- ... ban on handguns – as does Van Bynen – but this, of course, is not in the Liberal Platform) Now we are galloping on to question five on affordable housing. I see Lois Brown snatching the microphone before ...
- Created on 02 October 2019
- 39. Yvonne Kelly and the NDP's New Dea
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- ... who sometimes struggle to make ends meet and don’t have a fortune to fall back on. She says $70,000 a year in York Region doesn’t go far if you have to spend 30%-40% of your income on housing. Affordable ...
- Created on 25 September 2019
- 40. More Homes More Choice Act 2019: Time to Talk
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- ... agenda tonight? (Scroll to agenda page 316) Elliott says she "champions" the new Act and claims it will make housing more affordable for the people of Newmarket-Aurora. The report says “Bill 108 ...
- Created on 24 June 2019
- 41. Vegh now says there may never be a new library at Hollingsworth
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- ... sort of assisted living component which is really important for some but, frankly, it would not be affordable to most so it would not be any type of affordable seniors’ housing. The other option was to ...
- Created on 30 May 2019
- 42. York Regional Council tells Ford to delay Homes Bill and start talking
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- ... back the old OMB. He wants Ford to put the brakes on Bill 108 and talk to municipalities about how best to get housing growth that is affordable. He said no-one wanted to go back to the old OMB except ...
- Created on 17 May 2019
- 43. Doug Ford, Christine Elliott and the Greenbelt.
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- ... to “Increase the supply of affordable housing across the GTA while protecting the Greenbelt in its entirety.” And now we have Bill 66 from the snake oil salesman in chief, Doug Ford. It doesn' ...
- Created on 11 December 2018
- 44. Emanuel doubles down on claim that Vegh’s promises are undeliverable
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- ... housing.” Emanuel accuses Vegh of having a shopping list without prices. Emanuel is much less specific than Vegh: “We must make sure our community is affordable – housing and recreation programme ...
- Created on 16 October 2018
- 45. Do Chris Emanuel’s sums add up?
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- ... is an urgent need for more affordable seniors housing and I will make it a priority to secure this funding.” But “subsidized housing” is not restricted to seniors. Can we agree the meaning of terms? ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
- 46. Newmarket Mayoral hopeful Joe Wamback sets out his stall
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- ... he is a senior himself. He wants to see affordable housing on the 12 acre site at Mulock Farm – while preserving the park. He is trying to have his cake and eat it. Joe tells us: “We do not need ...
- Created on 20 September 2018
- 47. Vote NDP and get Ford says Ballard
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- ... on to ground where the Wynne Liberals have already staked a claim. On climate change. On fair wages. On public libraries. On long term care beds. On affordable housing (though much, much more to do). On ...
- Created on 05 June 2018
- 48. Ford publishes “fully costed” platform but the sums don’t add up
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- ... to “Increase the supply of affordable housing across the GTA while protecting the Greenbelt in its entirety.” Perhaps Professor Ford should explain in detail how he plans to do this. Ford says ...
- Created on 31 May 2018
- 49. MPP hopeful Christine Elliott says the PCs will produce a fully costed platform before the election.
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- ... use policies and affordable housing. Ballard points to 212 Davis Drive as the first purpose-built rental in Newmarket since Confederation. He lavishes praise on the Town and mentions the key role played ...
- Created on 24 May 2018