Comment 62728

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted April 26, 2011 at 15:26:27

Maybe an incentive program would be restricted to properties whose owners live on the premises and with a maximum number of units for a given square footage... At any rate, my brainstorm idea is in regards to existing multi family conversions - to encourage making them higher quality and safer accommodations - not to encourage further dissection of single family homes into dumpy flop houses.

However I do think that higher density and multi family dwellings are products of (and catalysts for) healthier cities, provided the apartments and dwellings are well kept and safe so we should not be scared to allow future conversions.

Absentee landlord-ism is a huge problem no matter what the scale of property - whether it's a modest duplex or the Connaught or Federal building - and we need a bylaw system that addresses this while still making it a reasonable proposition for good landlords and property owners to create high quality legal apartments.

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