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Housing Commons

Abandonment Issues: Let's Heal Toronto with a Use It or Lose It Bylaw

Submitted by shiri on Tue, 2007-10-30 20:27.

This is the first official campaign for Property Taskforce: www.abandonmentissues.ca

Last night we had our campaign launch and the room was overflowing with over 150 people, including local city councilor Gord Perks. Allan Lissner displayed 3 diptych photos on housing themes, St. Christopher House brought maps of socio-economic neighbourhood change, and we had a slide-show running of around 50 images of abandonded buildings. We also displayed our own map, with pins stuck in reflecting the location of abandonded buildings in town.

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