Thanks to CP24’s Codi Wilson for taking the time to talk with our founder, Robert Barnard, about the need for affordable housing for young people in city centres and how Toboggan Flats is working to provide it.
Check out an excerpt from the article below:
A Canadian think-tank has a plan to keep young people from fleeing urban centres in search of more affordable accommodations.
As part of its Toboggan Flats project, Youthful Cities is working on a plan to convert vacant office spaces in Canada’s urban centres into residential co-living developments for young people struggling to pay rent in the country’s most expensive cities.
“Downtowns are starting to hollow out because people aren’t coming back to work,” Robert Barnard, co-founder of Youthful Cities, told CP24.com. “We’ve got these vacant office spaces that really could be housing.”
