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Ontario housing programs are failing to meet demand: FAO
The province s financial watchdog says the need for affordable housing and the homelessness crisis will worsen by 2025 By Julia Mastroianni
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Demand for housing in Ontario will increase by over 80,000 households from 2018 to 2027 due to insufficient provincial and federal funding for housing and homelessness programs, according to a Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) report released on Thursday.
Ater accounting for expiring funding, the province’s financial watchdog said that even with new commitments under the National Housing Strategy (NHS), Ontario’s annual spending on housing programs will be consistently lower than 2018-2019 spending until 2024-2025.
Massive Lego creation joins Aga Khan Museum’s collection
Made of 100,000 Lego pieces, the sculpture is an Afrofuturist reimagining of an ancient West African trade hub By Julia Mastroianni
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The 30-square-foot sculpture of 100,000 Lego pieces will be a permanent part of Aga Khan Museum s collection.
A sculpture made of approximately 100,000 Lego pieces by Toronto artist Ekow Nimako is the newest edition to Aga Khan Museum’s permanent collection.
The sculpture, titled Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE, is Nimako’s Afrofuturist reimagining of a West Saharan trade hub. It was originally the centrepiece for the Building Black: Civilizations exhibition the museum commissioned Nimako to create.
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Parkdale tenants keep their rent over building upkeep
The tenants are withholding partial rent from their corporate landlord in response to what they call unfair living conditions By Julia Mastroianni
Google Street View of 55 Triller Avenue in Parkdale.
Tenants in a Parkdale building are withholding a third of their rent in an effort to send a message to a corporate landlord over what they call unfair living conditions.
The building, located at 55 Triller and managed by DMS Property Management Ltd, was bought by Starlight Investments a year ago.
Starlight filed the highest number of applications for above-guideline rent increases in Toronto between 2012 to 2019, according to a recent report by RenovictionsTO.