Ottawa Wants to Build 100,000 Affordable Housing Units: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Ottawa to unveil national housing strategy: 100,000 new affordable units, recognize housing as ‘fundamental right ‘
“The federal government will outline the details of its highly anticipated national housing strategy on Wednesday, including how it wants to create up to 100,000 new affordable housing units across the country
“Radio-Canada, CBC’s French-language service, has learned that on top of those new units, Ottawa will target 300,000 existing units for renovation.
“The plan will be implemented over 10 years, with some elements still to be announced in 2018.”
– CBC News
2. Andy Byford leaving the TTC for a job with New York City Transit
“His resignation is effective mid-December, following the completion of the Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension, which is slated to open Dec. 17.
“In January, Byford will take on a new role as president and CEO of New York City Transit, which he described as ‘arguably the toughest job in transit right now.’
‘I will look back on my time at the TTC as the absolute highlight of my 28-year transit career to date,” he said in a prepared speech, in which he stated his ‘signature policy’ had been ‘changing the prevailing culture at the TTC.'”
3. Jordan Peterson is the stupid man’s smart person
From Tabatha Southey: “There is no polite way to put this, but since Peterson claims that ‘If you worry about hurting people’s feelings and disturbing the social structure, you’re not going to put your ideas forward,’ I’m just going to say it: Spend half an hour on his website, sit through a few of his interminable videos, and you realize that what he has going for him, the niche he has found—he never seems to say “know” where he could instead say ‘cognizant of’—is that Jordan Peterson is the stupid man’s smart person.”
– Macleans
+1: The Republican war on college – The Atlantic
4. The haves and have-nots: four cities in crisis
“On the surface, Ulaanbaatar, San Francisco, Calais and Jerusalem could not be more different – but for the people squeezed out by political upheaval or prohibitive rents, the urban 21st century looks disturbingly uniform”
5. CEO of HQ Trivia: If you run this profile, we’ll fire our host
“The trivia app has become a sensation on the app store and a darling for media prognosticators. Its CEO threatened to fire its star host for talking to us about salad.”
