Image of the day: purpose-built market rental housing in Toronto

Toronto has built hardly any since the 1970s

Alex Bozikovic

From a Twitter thread by Alex Bozikovic:

Unfortunate that progressive commentators keep suggesting that there is no housing shortage. Of course it’s not immigrants’ fault. But it exists

There is not enough housing. There’s now a broad expert consensus on this point. Continuing to ignore that does, in fact, make things worse, and contribute to dangerous xenophobia.

A similar picture for Ontario:

Justice_Queen. “This chart shows the proportion of purpose-built rental units in Ontario, grouped by year of construction. Pre-1961: 23%; 1961-1970: 33%; 1971-1980: 30%; 1981-1990: 7%; 1991-2000: 2%; 2001-2010: 3%; 2011+: 3%.”