Toronto ReHousing program wins top CMHC award - Daily Commercial News

EDWARD BAYLEY - The yellowbelt refers to older urban and suburban housing that is resistant to easy infill redevelopment. Pictured, Toronto’s Don Valley Village.

On Feb. 29 the team was announced as winner of the $25,000 CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research, recognizing a “significant research contribution that helps us achieve our aspiration to make housing affordable for everyone in Canada.” “What we wanted to do is start to systematize things like getting pricing, systematize the process of understanding the zoning, and this idea of a design catalog that we came up with that now the housing ministers have, it’s trying to create a system to make it more cost effective, to create economies, to create cost savings for small construction projects,” said Piper.

He explained governments and the construction industry “do a really good job of making large development less expensive,” and lenders are equipped to offer access to loans. But for infill, there is not a recognized pathway for accessing the professionals who can advise on individual projects.REHOUSING.CA – The ReHousing the Yellowbelt catalogue offers three basic strategies for adding new units to a home — convert, split or add.

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