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Tower Renewal & Tax Incentives
In August, the Tower Renewal Partnership (TRP) conducted new analysis on incenting nation-wide comprehensive tower retrofits. In particular, tax incentives were modelled and evaluated to understand how they…
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TRP launches retrofit research with EU partners
The Tower Renewal Partnership (TRP) has received CMHC support to kick-start a research program with two new research projects: ‘Advancing Building Retrofits’ and ‘Enabling Complete Communities’. In April,…
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TRP Launches ‘Retrofits with Residents in Place’ Solutions Lab
The Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal has received CMHC support to explore the challenges of conducting deep energy retrofits in occupied apartment housing and develop tools to…
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Tower Renewal on CBC Radio
As aging apartment buildings begin to contribute to the housing crisis, (exposed this week in the infrastructure failure at 260 Wellesley, Toronto) the clear response is system-scale reinvestment…
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Tower Renewal Partnership in AD Magazine
Calling All Architects: New Approaches to Old Housing For the past decade, Tower Renewal has been defined by research, policy design and action. Through multi-sectoral partnerships, best-practice and…
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TRP Publishes New Research on Retrofit Finance
In July, the Tower Renewal Partnership (“TRP”) released Tower Renewal and Retrofit Finance in support of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s interest in encouraging the retrofit and…
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TRP Welcomes the National Housing Co-Investment Fund
Today, the federal government released the first round of National Housing Strategy programs, kicking off a new era for housing in Canada. The National Housing Co-Investment Fund’s ‘Repair…
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Growth and Resiliency in Tower in the Park Sites Across the GGH
Growth and Resiliency in Tower in the Park Sites Across the GGH describes the challenges of Tower Renewal and energy retrofitting from a policy and built form perspective and…
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Tower Renewal in 2017
The Tower Renewal strategy has had significant impact over the past year. Across all levels of government, there is a growing consensus: Tower Renewal can have a scalable…
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Provincial-Municipal Workshop: Enabling Tower Retrofits in Ontario
In 2016, the first Intermunicipal Tower Roundtable was held in Hamilton, bringing together Ontario’s four largest municipalities–Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton and Mississauga–to share best practices and innovative approaches…
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The RAC Zone is recognized with an Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) Award for Excellence in Planning
The RAC Zone, a partnership between ERA Architects, the Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal, United Way Toronto & York Region, Toronto Public Health and the City of…
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Retrofit Finance Towards a Resilient Canadian Housing Stock
Postwar towers – apartment buildings built before 1985 – make up most of the purpose-built rental stock across the country with almost 800,000 households calling these apartments home.…