No one denies that there is a housing crisis, whether it is for affordable housing or housing affordability, we need more housing built that is attainable, sustainable, and helps improve our quality...
The City of Ottawa has converted unused office space in a downtown building into transitional housing for 140 asylum seekers — just blocks from Parliament Hill. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says it’s the...
Addressing the urgent housing shortage, a modular and prefab residential company will launch in the Greater Toronto Area next year, with initial plans of producing up to 3,000 units annually. “We’re...
The City of Toronto is moving ahead with a major infrastructure response to rising homelessness, highlighting the construction of new shelter sites and thousands of affordable homes as critical...
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has released an updated report that aims to put a spotlight on critical delays in the Site Plan Approval process and their costly impact on the province’s...
The conversation surrounding the construction climate in Toronto and the GTA isn’t a simple one, with the hot-topic of tariffs only one part of an ever-evolving situation. “The message I think...
As both a practising architect and as the president of the governing Council of a provincial architecture regulator, I have been following the national housing design catalogue initiative with a lot...
Allan Teramura is the past president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. That the federal government is taking an interest in housing design is welcome news, as it’s an issue it has long...
Ontario’s housing crisis was a significant newsmaker in 2023 and despite measures, legislation and other initiatives the government rolled out, affordability and availability remained at crisis...
In May, six organizing members of the group Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) held a rally in front of the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. "What do we demand?" they yelled toward a...