What broke Toronto’s rental market?

Toronto’s rental market is in dire need of more supply. But back in the 1960s and 1970s the city had a healthy stock of apartment buildings. So what happened? CBC Toronto’s Shannon Martin explores the timeline of when Canada’s biggest city started running out of rentals.

00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - 1960s/1970s rental building booms
02:26 - 1980s/1990s rental building decreases
03:20 - Condo takeover
04:50 - Present day rental stock
06:22 - Conclusion


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