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Advisory Services Impact: Tower Renewal Check Up Webinar: Confronting the Private Sector Rental Affordability Challenge
November 24, 2020
More than a decade since the high-profile launch of the City of Toronto’s Tower Renewal initiative, designed to upgrade the city’s over 1,000 apartment towers while maintaining affordability to over half-million Toronto residents, a landmark Urban Land Institute report* will offer critical and timely analysis. Significant progress is underway to revitalize publicly owned towers, but the challenges facing privately owned buildings (85% of the stock) remain steep.
REGISTER HERE for a webinar report launch on December 3
Join ULI Toronto for a two-part program, offering key highlights from the international ULI Advisory Panel (convened pre-COVID-19) and a local panel discussion. Panelists will put critical focus on the current economic context facing the tower renewal agenda – and how COVID-19 exposes the need for greater public policy interest in the decaying towers that are homes to many of the city’s most vulnerable residents.
Report Overview:
Jim Heid, President & Founder, UrbanGreen (ULI Advisory Services Panel Chair)
Moderator:
Doug Saunders, International Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail and Author, Arrival City
Speakers:
Aderonke Akande, Manager, Tower and Neighbourhood Revitalization, City of Toronto
Randy Daiter, Vice President, Residential Properties, M&R Holdings
Valesa Faria, Director, Housing Secretariat, City of Toronto
Kwame McKenzie, Chief Executive Officer, Wellesley Institute
Graeme Stewart, Principal, ERA Architects
Graeme Stewart, Principal, ERA Architects
*Report to be released on December 3rd.