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No issue has dominated the political and industry agenda more in recent years than housing costs and affordability, now ranked the top social/political issue among respondents to this year’s PwC/ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate survey. From market affordable to deeply subsidized housing, the challenge to arrest spiraling home ownership costs and rent increases appears out of control. With quality of life and the region’s prosperity at stake, join ULI Toronto for a special five-part webinar series during National Housing Week that explores what most describe as a housing affordability crisis in the GTA: what is fueling it, the impact of current efforts, and new ideas to truly and sustainably solve for it. Markets are defined by supply and demand, and yet the demand side of the housing affordability crisis in the GTA gets much less airtime. Myriad demand pressures and incentives are at play in our housing market. What are these pressures, and how is public policy at each level of government contributing to the region's affordability challenges or solutions in both the ownership and rental markets?

Webinar Summary: No issue has dominated the political and industry agenda more in recent years than housing costs and affordability, now ranked the top social/political issue among respondents to this year’s PwC/ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate survey. From market affordable to deeply subsidized housing, the challenge to arrest spiraling home ownership costs and rent increases appears out of control. With quality of life and the region’s prosperity at stake, join ULI Toronto for a special five-part webinar series during National Housing Week that explores what most describe as a housing affordability crisis in the GTA: what is fueling it, the impact of current efforts, and new ideas to truly and sustainably solve for it. Markets are defined by supply and demand, and yet the demand side of the housing affordability crisis in the GTA gets much less airtime. Myriad demand pressures and incentives are at play in our housing market. What are these pressures, and how is public policy at each level of government contributing to the region's affordability challenges or solutions in both the ownership and rental markets?

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