Guest Speaker: Murtaza Haider
Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University in Toronto , Director of consulting firm, Regionomics Inc. and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
His Insights:
• What the Toronto market can learn from other cities around the world with respect to housing
• Are our city officials are doing enough to increase the housing supply through permits and innovative thinking like condos in houses & laneway housing?
• Is the city doing enough to ensure our infrastructure can keep up with the pace of condo development in the 416 with respect to transit & sewers?
• Murtaza's advice for first-time home buyers
• Purchasing now before prices get too high vs. waiting for reprieve in the market
• How that will ease the housing supply in Toronto
• Should developers be able to build taller buildings in order to meet the housing demands we face in Toronto?
• What city officials should be doing to build better transit for people making decisions based on transit infrastructure.
• Where the transit should go