From Toronto Life: House of the Week: $4 million for a Leaside home with eight bathrooms and a laneway suite The 4,000-square-foot fortress also comes…
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Published December 28, 2022
Laneway Housing Advisors Posts
Published December 26, 2022
Anatomy of the perfect corner garden suite lot
We’ve talked in the past about how perfect some lots are for garden suites. HERE, HERE and HERE, just for example. Lots that occupy a…
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Published December 17, 2022
A hard road to adding gentle density to increase Toronto’s housing supply
From the Globe and Mail: Architects and contractors who have cobbled together a portfolio of laneway suite projects in the past few years are discovering…
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Published December 13, 2022
What you need to know about Toronto’s new housing plan — and how it might affect your options
Motion calling on staff to draft 2023 ‘housing action plan’ goes to city council Wednesday From CBC: Toronto’s mayor announced a sweeping plan last…
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Published December 12, 2022
Prefab ADU Guide for (USA) Homeowners: Accessory Dwelling Units Explained
From fieldmag.com: A higher cost of living, limited housing, the undisputed need for a quiet home office or a private pad for visitors—the list…
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Published December 6, 2022
60 garden suite projects are now underway in Toronto
60! This week we hit 60 building permit applications in at City Hall for garden suites in Toronto. That’s a fairly high pace, considering the…
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Published December 5, 2022
Ward 19 (Beaches-East York) homeowners get a great bonus with garden suite size, height, and lot coverage
When the new Toronto garden suite program was approved back in early 2022, one truly exciting feature was overlooked by many. Likely because it only…
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Published November 29, 2022
Meet the Toronto garages that are being converted to garden suites
We track both garden suite and laneway house building permit applications, through information publicly available to us from City Hall. A surprising number of the…
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Published November 29, 2022
Etobicoke corner unit property to convert garage upper floor to garden suite
Just in at City Hall, this Scarlett Road property has applied for a conversion. The existing garage will be converted so that the upper unit…
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Published November 12, 2022
Hamilton offers forgivable $30,000 loans for laneway suites
From The Star: The city hopes to coax affordable secondary units into Hamilton’s housing market through a forgivable loan pilot program. The $250,000 initiative offers applicants of…
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