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By JasonAAllen (registered) - website | Posted March 22, 2011 at 09:26:28

That Pocket Housing idea is amazing. Apparently one of the remarks from the conference reported in the Spec was how there was a real urgency to create low-rise affordable housing, and avoid the flight of low-income renters into Apartment towers - which has been a cause of much difficulty in Toronto. These Pocket Houses could be just the thing to not only provide 'human scale' housing for marginalized people - but to do so in a way that integrates people into the community - and perhaps into more communities than just Downtown and the East End.

I walk past two or three boarding homes on my way home (having volunteered in them in the past, they're easy to spot), and know how bad the conditions can be. Pocket Housing sounds like a great first step in the right direction.

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