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To address the growing urban population, along with the joint affordability and environmental crises, Canada needs to build more affordable, energy-efficient buildings. (Shutterstock)

Canada’s housing crisis demands better buildings — here are the changes that could improve apartment and condo life

In order to ensure new multi-unit housing prioritizes comfort and health, future residents and building owners should know what design choices to advocate for.
The Ontario government is partnering with Menkes Development to build the Lower Yonge Precinct Elementary School in a new mixed-use condominium. (Shutterstock)

‘Vertical school’ in a Toronto condo raises questions about public-private education partnerships

When private contractors build schools they don’t necessarily meet the needs of communities for a lower cost than what governments can provide, and there’s less public accountability.
A For Sale sign is shown outside a house under construction in a new subdivision in Beckwith, Ont., in January 2018. Conventional wisdom suggests urban-dwelling millennials don’t want to live in the suburbs and don’t want to raise children in a two-bedroom downtown condo. Is it really true? THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Challenging the myths about millennials and housing

If it’s true millennials are being squeezed out of the housing market in some of Canada’s biggest cities, here’s what we can, and should, do about it.

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