School of Cities, University of Toronto

A new report suggests many parents are co-signing their kids’ mortgages to help priced-out young adults gain a toehold in pricey markets. Director of Infrastructure Institute, Matti Siemiatycki spoke to the Toronto Star about the trials of homeownership for younger generations.  https://lnkd.in/gX-UrPey School of Cities, University of Toronto #homeowner #torontostar #realestate #toronto #mortgagerates #housingbubble #affordablehousing

Join us for an in-person seminar on The Politics of Local Budgeting in Canada: Three Case Studies on June 12. The annual budget process is a key function for local governments around the world. In Canada, the process by which municipalities prepare operating and capital budgets differs somewhat across the almost 4,000 municipalities operating within 13 different provincial/territorial contexts. The budget is the result of a process that involves many actors with different motivations and interrelationships, operating under different decision-making frameworks. On June 12th, Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stephanie Ortynsky, will compare the process of local government budgeting to federal and provincial budgeting processes before diving into three case studies of municipalities that have embarked on budgetary reform: a change in the fiscal year in Halifax; the introduction of strong mayor powers in Toronto; and the implementation of multi-year budgeting in Vancouver. She will identify key budgetary actors and their motivations in each case study and discuss changes local governments could make to improve the budgetary process. Speaker Stephanie Ortynsky, PhD is the 2023-24 Richard M. Bird postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG). She received a Doctorate (PhD) in Public Policy from the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Regina in 2023. Stephanie has contributed to research, evaluation, and knowledge mobilization projects in Saskatchewan, Switzerland, South Africa, and Tajikistan. Stephanie has taught graduate-level courses in policy analysis, public sector financial management, statistics for public managers, and most recently municipal finance at the University of Toronto. #budgetting #municipalities #localgov #localgovernment #toronto #vancouver #halifax https://lnkd.in/gZzNyaip

A hydraulic oil spill brought TTC Line 2 trains to a stop for a large portion of the line for several hours. Director of Infrastructure Institute, Matti Siemiatycki talked with CityNews the need for more resources are needed to fix the existing system. Read the full story https://lnkd.in/gNgYjYeb School of Cities, University of Toronto #infrastructure #cityoftoronto #ttc #urbanplanning #commuting #commutinglife #toronto

Grad students of University of Toronto: Apply now for our new Multidisciplinary Urban Graduate Seminar on representations of urban vandalism: state-sponsored vs. Citizen vandalism, cultural vandalism, political vandalism, the vandalism of art, art as vandalism, vandalism for fun & for profit. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gaHSg94d

🚀Amazing experience to be in the 1st cohort of this urban change leadership program at School of Cities, University of Toronto. Got to meet the professors and learn from the best in the industry including Richard Florida, Lisa Helps, Nouman Ashraf. ✅Thanks for a full day of in-person learning about the true value of leadership and problem solving. Looking forward to the rest of the program! . . . . #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #universityoftoronto #uoft #continuingeducation #leadershipskills #citybuilder #architect #development #construction #toronto #cities #uoftcities

School of Cities researchers recently published an article in Nature’s Scientific Data journal that aims to create a consistent definition of commercial areas, combining various types – including downtowns, retail centres, financial districts, and other employment subcentres – and involving density data from 69 metropolitan regions across the U.S. and Canada: https://lnkd.in/d6aafzZE . . . #metropolitan #research #uoft #urban #cities #urban #github #maps #gis #usa #canada

TODAY, 12 PM ET: Our final Knowledge Café of 2023-24 features Laura Tozer on how energy retrofit programs can address energy poverty in Canada, and how a vulnerability-based approach to the determinants of energy poverty can be paired with working towards a livable climate. There’s still time to register! https://lnkd.in/g3Y8kjHw

Meet Mitchell Ma, the winner of our 2023-24 Graduate Fellows knowledge mobilization competition, which challenges fellows to translate their research through a format that is engaging and informative for the public.   Ma’s project in collaboration with the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library presents ten stories from members of the Hong Kong diaspora that delve into how their immigration experiences have shaped their sense of self and belonging in Toronto.  Learn more about the project: https://lnkd.in/g8DsjSrc 

There's still time to register for our final Knowledge Café of 2023-24, featuring a conversation with Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough's Laura Tozer about energy retrofits, energy poverty & energy inequity in Canadian policy and practice. May 15, 12 PM ET: https://lnkd.in/g3Y8kjHw