Guest Speaker: Andrew Sorbara, Co-Founder, Lanescape
• What Lanescape is and how it started
• Would Laneway housing improve the rental supply in Toronto?
• What stopped Toronto from having more laneway housing in the past
• Are there other cities with laneway housing?
• Pushback from homeowners who feel their neighbourhood would become too crowded
• The cost for a home owner to change a garage into a laneway house and what would be involved in the conversion
•How many Laneway houses could we have in the city if they were allowed?
• The steps of getting the City of Toronto to allow laneway housing
• Has Andrew had any support from council on this?
• Andrews results from the survey about laneway housing
• What other roadblocks are there to making laneway housing possible?
