Davelle Morrison

Guest Speaker: Andrew Sorbara, Co-Founder, Lanescape • What Lanescape is and how it started • Would Laneway housing improve the rental supply in Toronto? • What stopped Toronto from having more laneway housing in the past • Are there other cities with laneway housing? • Pushback from homeowners who feel their neighbourhood would become too crowded • The cost for a home owner to change a garage into a laneway house and what would be involved in the conversion •How many Laneway houses could we have in the city if they were allowed? • The steps of getting the City of Toronto to allow laneway housing • Has Andrew had any support from council on this? • Andrews results from the survey about laneway housing • What other roadblocks are there to making laneway housing possible?