Andrew

Very nice ❤️. I have friends living in a mostly-retiree tower, who love its a pool, library, craft room, workshop. More options for changes in needs as we age is key. I believe single stair, euro elevator, & other code changes'd allow for very desirable in-neighbourhood options currently missing.

We sadly don't see as many of them, but there are many designs of condos, rentals, multi-unit buildings which fit into existing neighbourhoods, allow for custom age-in-place home designs that don't easily retrofit existing stock, while staying low rise, with shared or private outdoor space.

This's what I'd love to see, esp. for high desirability neighbourhoods like in Toronto. Allow for a sfh to be demolished, changed into single stair+euro elevator, 3-4fl of 2bed+ units. Friends could move closer, in n'hood, service providers have 1 stop, 2-3 homes+equity freed, could be own or rent.

So a bit of both of what you're saying, that in Toronto, notably more older renters (ownership never hits 70%) & renters overall, but ownership increasing into old age, vs peaking & descending slightly in Canada overall, yes?

Joy is infectious. Hopefully this feels like the bonanzas of ALDS gm1&2, ALCS gm 3&4, & WS gm 1, and can catch the guys back here in a few weeks. Always find your joy, your path, your bit, and commit to it, and the rewards will be bountiful. Or crushing, I don't know; Halloween blacked me out a bit.

The pole working explicitly as intended, sadly, sparing the driver all their recklessness, at the cost of an innocent bystander.

Bluesky seems like exactly the place for that beat to be represented (& the other place, perhaps to get the other side of many arguments & awarenesses to consider in reporting). Appreciated your work on the beat while we had it!

Indeed, instead of winning many elections then stepping away from office just as one began, you've avoided the chains of office & mediocrity in it by stepping away from them before it could even begin. Perhaps just the not-mayor-alty we needed, after all. Next pop-up park, we'll name in your honour❤️

Cell, internet, & Jays prices along with the rest of us. Not hosting an old fashioned radio show, you host newfangled podcasts. Not having corporate connections to work for your consensual millennial partner, you could have a consensual boomer partner to help connect you with government done better.

You could have been the breath of fresh air we needed. Instead of the latest descendant of a line of politicians so long we could laugh, your lineage of politics is afaik polite Canadian crickets. Not having a side job on the board of Rogers, you would be of the people, complaining about

Basic income is unlikely to happen, as most plans show it costing more than all existing government spending, & drastically reducing the benefits of those in greatest need as a way to pay for it. Direct assistance, imo, should be need-based equity-minded (& improved!), not ignoring individual needs.

I note subsidized because there is that requirement. Land given by the government is such a subsidy, removing millions of dollars of assets from federal coffers (I say that as a supporter). Costs to build don't have much 'fat' to trim, making ongoing, permanent subsidies likely.

If it's nothing so big about which to bray, den schenn'nt move the needle too much.

Slightly advanced congrats, then, taking the spotlight on an otherwise quiet day.

With bells on 😊

For any wandering this conversational lane (one I've enjoyed discovering): the report I mentioned. The clipped elements note particulars with positive & negative impacts on sense of safety & belonging, & I have felt them & similar, & their inverse, impact how I feel.
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associations. I want to see all that drew me to Toronto for decades celebrated, even as that means visible change to help prevent the unavoidable alternative worse invisible change, so we're more worried about "good china" sitting in many homes' cabinets, than who'll come by if we plate ours first 😊

found your pre-book (congrats, btw 🥳) report interesting, for how highly it noted the value of expressly noting & showing in spaces how different folk & their forms were welcome 🏳️‍🌈 (iirc), & feel versions of that or it lacking affecting me from things like I'm describing of KM & other resident

housing focus not on whether it suited the needs of those it'd house, but could it fewer ppl of fewer household shapes, for the fears of present-day KM. KM feels like it should lead the city in open arms & streets, but if the matriarch n'hood says 🚫, the rest of the n'hoods at the table follow. I

sidewalk sizes & roadway guidelines that are as un-unique as textbook. Friends of KM's development guidelines are some of the most stringent (& NIMBY-coded, yes) I've seen of any neighbourhood association, which feels very un-KM. Felt very strange to see the biggest concerns over new KM affordable

all kinds of neighbourhoods are offering compelling changing local amenity ingredients, no single one has to build a table for everyone. I do appreciate the unplanned aspects of KM that feel different from Distillery or the Well, but that's why I'd hope we wouldn't see such tight clinging to minimum

Trying to dance with them metaphor, see where it leads me :). The fear of rising rents is real, but as it happens both from newness drawing people in & people becoming successful while they stay, I aspire to the longer tables with old chairs & new, the stone soup of community building where because

I want hsg to better reflect incomes too, but this is the peril. 30% of an income is a fixed amount; the govt subsidy required to backfill the mortgage-paying-rent grows as housing prices grow, & thus the fewer we can subsidize as prices rise. Consequences meaning the undesired choices Mike noted.

recall most when I first visited decades ago, before moving here. But to return to the pt, it's why so many "good china" moments are rare I feel, cuz any 1st plate laid out feels like the 1st door to say yes in The Stone Soup tale, fearing famine, yet opening cupboards's how we're all well fed🙂 3/3

around a bigger table, while never seeing (or acknowledging, perhaps anxiously) that resisting all change only guarantees every notable resident or business that wasn't there before, means one less spot for someone striving to be welcomed, since bigger tables were eschewed. It's still the spot I 2/3

I'm an outsider, but there's the most interesting, lasting urbanism/gentrification Q. I admire the successes of the proudest KM folks I know, & desire to preserve the accessible open arms of KM, but it manifests most as resisting physical change, fearing what other successful folks might sit 1/3

The fear I felt I saw from consultations seemed to imagine that pedestrianization'd mean Distillery-at-Christmas crowds & rent increases pushing out what feel like KM biz & ppl (& voiced in part w inaccurate assessments of how accessibility/deliveries could be handled). But KM is the ppl, not the 🚙

& it's strange, as $ to pedestrianize is 1 time (set aside temp vs perm cost). But as w Kensington Market here, ppl fear: if there's just one "good china" pedestrian plate, everyone'll fight over it & break it (nevermind Distillery being calm much of the yr). Don't we deserve "good" all year round?

The issue is the same, no? Whether you're paying a big mortgage on an expensive home, or the same in rent to cover the owner's equally-large mortgage, all the same consequences occur and apply.

Much of that piece feels like the lone 5min stand-up set I ever did. What's the importance of having a home valued at 1 million? Same as a heart valued at $1M: you can pay a bank to borrow against it, but to actually realize the value... good luck living without a home around you, or heart in you.