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Toronto’s affordability crisis has intensified. Here’s why it needs to be fixed now

August 14, 2023

Matti Siemiatycki, professor of geography and planning at the University of Toronto, says the housing crisis in the city is leaving newcomers and long time residents in the lurch, and is pushing people from the city. He told Global News that fixing the issue is going to take an “all-hands-on-deck” approach.

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