The Toronto Star's Jennifer Pagliaro writes about the latest problems with Toronto Community Housing finding money to do the long-needed repairs to its stock.

The Toronto Community Housing board voted Thursday to amend its 2017 budget, taking $19 million in recently identified surplus funds in order to reduce a $35.2-million shortfall ( Read more... )

CBC News' Ramna Shahzad confirms that Tory's turnaround on road tolls has not been matched by support for more property taxes.

Toronto Mayor John Tory announced on Monday that he will ensure property tax increases for 2017 will be recommended to city council at or below the rate of inflation ( Read more... )

Steve Munro takes a look at the complex history of fare subsidies on the TTC.

With the never ending problems of balancing the TTC’s budget, the question of trimming or eliminating various forms of fare subsidy are back on the table. This shows up as a quick fix to revenue problems with the assumption that “if only riders paid more, there wouldn’t ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes city opposition to a new subdivision in Weston.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on KIC 7917485b, a massive gas giant found in close orbit of a star.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog dissects the idea of this being a season of giving.
• Joe. My. God. notes Clinton's vote lead over Trump surpassed two million.
• Language Log looks at Chinese transcriptions ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's University of Toronto-sponsored article arguing that St. Lawrence Market offers a way forward for affordable housing caught my attention.

Ronny Yaron was one of the first residents to move into the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood in Toronto 37 years ago. A single mother of two, Yaron was tired of moving house and was seeking a ( Read more... )

Everything that the CBC reports about the effects of the impending TTC fare increases is correct.

Toronto Transit Commission riders told the TTC board on Monday that a 10-cent fare increase would mean paying more for less service ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Catherine Porter explores the story of the life of Paul Crombie, a homeless man recently killed near the St. Lawrence Market, and of what took how he got there.

The first news reports of his death referred to a brawl near St. Lawrence Market ( Read more... )

In Torontoist, Tamara Yelland describes how the definition of "affordable housing" in Toronto is, practically speaking, irrelevant to the relatively poor people the definition is for.

“Affordable housing” is both a common-sense concept and a policy term. The accepted benchmark in policy is that someone spending no more than 30 per cent of their ( Read more... )

CBC News' Solomon Israel reports on high levels of child poverty in Toronto, poverty concentrated in particular neighbourhoods at that.

Toronto remains Canada's "child poverty capital," with 133,000 children living in poverty according to a new report ( Read more... )

This, a Toronto Star article by Jessica Wynne Lockhart, is part of a series on suburban Torotno's woes. I confess that I know so little about these areas. I should know more.

With its brown brick exterior and tidy garden, the 1970s bungalow on Mississauga’s Dixie Road appears unremarkable ( Read more... )