Toronto has a housing crisis. Activists are trying empathy to ease it.
When the community consultation meeting for a development in a northern Toronto neighborhood that includes 1,500 new apartment units – half of them affordable housing – got underway, it quickly turned contentious. Angry neighbors complained that the project would mean congested traffic, crowded schools, even increased crime.
But Eric Lombardi, a housing advocate, presented a different sort of response to the city planners.
He told the virtual meeting last October that the project, called Tyndale Green, is exactly the kind of option his generation needs in the middle of Toronto’s housing crisis – one that by some measures, is the world’s worst.
Members of the group Mr. Lombardi founded, More Neighbors Toronto, have been trying this tactic at
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