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    Can Inclusionary Zoning Help Address the Shortage of Affordable Housing in Toronto?

    Paper by Julie Mah for the Canadian Policy Research Network

    Inclusionary zoning has emerged in recent years in Toronto as a potential policy tool to help improve housing affordability. Its attractiveness to many proponents is its ability to leverage high growth housing markets and use the private sector to build affordable housing. This research report examines the effectiveness of inclusionary zoning as a policy tool to produce more affordable housing in Toronto.

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    Inclusionary Zoning for the Provision of Affordable Housing: A Comparative analysis of Vancouver and San Francisco

    By Nellie Chang:   Submitted to the Symposium on Affordable and Sustainable Housing,UBC October 2009

    The latest addition to the spectrum of municipal housing strategies in Canada is inclusionary zoning. This strategy, as expressed through policy and regulatoryframework, requires that a portion of multi-unit residential development be dedicated towards affordable housing. Apart from this core objective, the rules and criteria are as diverse as the municipalities that use this strategy.

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