Another Toronto urban planner with opinions on housing.
Joined December 2008
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Corey Horowitz retweeted
The Neighbourhood Land Trust has been snapping up buildings across Toronto, taking them off the market and into the community, writes @jasonmcbride68. Over 200 units later, they’re ready to do much more. thelocal.to/neighbourhood-la…
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Corey Horowitz retweeted
11 Aug 2022
I had to buy beer in cans today, in Ontario where until a few years ago 93% was sold in refillable bottles; not one in the store. Coincidentally this post went up: "The Beer Can Is an Unsustainable Tale of Convenience, Corporate Concentration, and Profit" treehugger.com/beer-can-mark…
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Corey Horowitz retweeted
28 Jan 2022
This is what happens when housing becomes an asset for investors who have no plans to ever step foot in the units they buy
Our housing supply problem is not just about how much we build, but what we build
28 Jan 2022
I'm pretty sure no City has worse layouts than Toronto. WTF is going on here?
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Corey Horowitz retweeted
28 Feb 2021
Corporate landlords are responsible for 84 per cent of all above-guideline rent increases in Toronto, according to RenovictionsTO. ow.ly/StmD50DLKkW
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Corey Horowitz retweeted
22 Nov 2020
the city is threatening legal action against Khaleel Seivwright for building shelters on city property. his solution is to place the shelters on private property from now on. anyone who can help him do this, please step up
22 Nov 2020
City issues warning letter to Toronto carpenter building shelters for unhoused people ift.tt/3nY9RpF
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13 Jun 2020
Not ready to give up on the "2000s MTV Cribs Mcmansion chic" era.
How Normie Minimalism and Farmhouse Chic Took Over Contemporary Design hyperallergic.com/566183/how…
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10 Jun 2020
Imagine having to design housing to suit the people that will actually live in it:
With investors shying away from condos, developers are marketing to end users — and that means changing everything from the balconies to the bedrooms thestar.com/business/2020/06…
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16 May 2020
This nails it re: Sidewalk. 'Our most fundamental problems are not some abstract lack of “innovation” or “world-class” aspiration, but our society’s failure to harness the enormous wealth already generated in our city to reduce inequality...' #TOpoli azuremagazine.com/article/go…
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15 Mar 2020
From the guy whose job is to increase building and development industry profits. Let's take his word for it #topoli thestar.com/life/homes/opini… via @torontostar
17 Jul 2019
Hell yes
17 Jul 2019
Councillor Perruzza’s motion for a report on creating cycling superhighways along rail lines CARRIES 24-2.
27 Jun 2019
Is it so crazy that not everyone can own a house (not even a condo) in downtown Toronto? There are only so many. Also maybe try somewhere other than trinity bellwoods..
Five jobs and the Toronto housing struggles that come with them thestar.com/news/gta/2019/06… via @torontostar
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26 Jun 2019
LORINC: Sidewalk Labs and the problem of smart city governance spacing.ca/toronto/2019/06/2… via @spacing
24 May 2019
This is satire right?
23 May 2019
Cllr Mike Colle, deploring what he calls "the epidemic" of people walking while drinking coffee, wonders if the city can have "an education program, for millennials" to encourage them drink coffee in a coffee-shop. Cites Italy as his preferred model
Corey Horowitz retweeted
23 May 2019
Check out the incredible maps exploring spatial patterns of division in the City of Toronto, created by our friends at @mapTOdotca for @thelocalhealth:
thelocal.to/mapping-our-divi…
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11 May 2019
Thread #TOpoli
11 May 2019
Does this thing have a hashtag? I don't think so. Long-ass thread it is. Anyway it's "Affordable Cities: Lessons for a New Decade of Housing Policy in TO" eventbrite.com/e/affordable-…
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