Please support laneway housing in Toronto.

Laneway housing will provide:

-Much-needed rental stock in a city with a 1.6 to 1.8 per cent vacancy rate.

-Income that would help homeowners pay off their mortgages — or, in some cases, allow them to stay in their homes.

-A place for adult children to live to stay close to their families, or for seniors to move into when their homes become too big for them.

-Much needed “invisible” density to help local businesses and transit systems thrive.

-More affordable, non-vertical downtown units that people can walk or cycle to and from, rather than drive.

Laneway housing should prioritize strict ecologically sound building practices. Climate change is now. Incentivizing construction of laneway houses which follow a Net Zero principle as identified by TransformTO should be built into the framework of policies regulating laneway housing.

The following link is an editorial for the Toronto Star supporting Councillor Bailao and Councillor McMahon's proposal.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/11/16/toronto-should-clear-the-path-for-laneway-housing-editorial.html