Staff recommend that city move ahead with tax on vacant homes; New York overhauled its affordable housing application system. Toronto wants to follow suit; New York overhauled its affordable housing application system. Toronto wants to follow suit; and more news:

Staff recommend that city move ahead with tax on vacant homes (CP24)

New York overhauled its affordable housing application system. Toronto wants to follow suit (CBC News)

‘Who are these people?’: A transit shelter that has always stopped sidewalk plows is getting rebuilt — on the exact same spot (Toronto Star)

Doug Ford rebuffs calls to reopen retail shops at 25 per cent capacity in Toronto, Peel region (Globe and Mail)

A program to help first-time home buyers has had little uptake in Toronto. So Ottawa has changed the rules (Toronto Star)

COVID-19 stimulus spending needs to be wise to the perils of road building (Spacing Toronto)