House Divided: How the Missing Middle Will Solve Toronto’s Affordability Crisis

Edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, and Annabel Vaughan
Published by Coach House Books 2019

Housing will always remain one of SvN’s primary areas of focus and research. Housing is a right, but supplying it to as broad a population as possible remains elusive, if not unaffordable. SvN members Drew Sinclair, John van Nostrand and Blair Scorgie contributed to this bestselling anthology with several articles and interviews covering subjects ranging from vertical subdivisions and the case for transition zoning to the realities of supply, demand and demographics on housing markets.

House Divided is an accessible book edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, and Annabel Vaughan. Published by Coach House Press, it is wholly a citizen’s guide to understanding the influences of zoning, policy, and economics on either creating new and liveable neighbourhoods and protecting existing “stable” residential neighbourhoods with already high property values. Using Toronto as a case study, this anthology unpacks the affordability crisis and offers innovative ideas for creating housing for all ages and demographic groups. This book explains the realities that shape Toronto as a global city with charts, maps, data, and policy prescriptions.

The book also gives a voice to a few of SvN’s significant concerns about the role housing can play.

You can purchase the book here.