Electric Cities

About Electric Cities

ULI Toronto presents Electric Cities, a podcast about land development and planning across the Toronto region. Hosted by Jeremy Warson, the podcast features conversations with the industry's most prominent leaders. With Seasons 1-5 now complete and Season 6 underway, there are plenty of interesting topics to choose from, such as trends in the condo, retail and office markets; stories of Toronto's success as a rapidly emerging global city and discussions on housing affordability, municipal governance and transit oriented development, to name just a few. Season 6 will focus on some of key themes identified in the Retrofitting Our Urban Region report released by the Toronto Region Board of Trade in partnership with ULI Toronto. The report reflects a collaboration of 175 city building professionals that were brought together to think through the social and economic challenges presented by COVID-19 and it includes nearly 80 recommendations for government and business leaders to consider. The Season 6 episodes will dig deeper into topics touched on in the report such as main street retail, arts and culture, and homelessness through conversations with leading urbanists and influential city builders.

Publisher

ULI Toronto

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Feb 2018

Latest episode

15 Mar 2022

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Mar 2022

   S7 Episode 3: Local Ratepayer Response to Missing Middle Housing

   Enabling missing middle housing as an as-of-right housing type in low-rise residential neighbourhoods has become a hot topic in recent months as a possible solution to address the housing affordability crisis.  And it is has gained the support of provincial policy makers and industry representatives.  But not everyone is fully on board, particularly many local residential ratepayer associations.  For this episode, Jeremy spoke with Cathie MacDonald, co-chair of FONTRA, a prominent and well-organized not-for-profit organization that represents 35 ratepayer association from across midtown Toronto.  Cathie shares her views on missing middle, ‘nimbyism’, and her concerns with many of the recommendations proposed in the Province’s Housing Affordability Task Force report.

2. 

   8 Mar 2022

   S7 Episode 2: The Push for Missing Middle Housing

   For this second episode on the housing affordability crisis, Jeremy spoke with Craig Ruttan, Policy Director for Energy, Environment and Land Use with the Toronto Region Board of Trade and author of their recent report urging the Province to eliminate exclusionary zoning on missing middle housing as a means to increase the housing supply.  Our interview was recorded on Feb 9th 2022, just one day after the Province released its Housing Affordability Task Force report.

3. 

   1 Mar 2022

   S7 Episode 1: An Overview of the Housing Affordability Crisis

   In this first of a series of episodes on the housing affordability crisis, Jeremy spoke with Frank Magliocco, National Real Estate Leader at PWC Canada.  Frank provided an excellent overview of the key factors contributing to the crisis, along with suggested ideas and related challenges to address the problem.  The podcast was recorded in November 2021, shortly after ULI and PWC released their Emerging Trends in Real Estate report.

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