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More and more Torontonians are ditching the big city in search of other places where ground-oriented homes are more affordable<\/span>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”21px” text_line_height=”1.6em” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_font_size=”36px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” header_3_font_size=”1.25rem” header_3_line_height=”1.88rem” header_4_font=”|700|||||||” header_4_font_size=”1.25rem” header_4_line_height=”1.88rem” custom_margin=”||11px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”21px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_2_font_size_tablet=”36px” header_2_font_size_phone=”25px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n By Josh Sherman<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>| 5 minute read<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_title title=”off” author=”off” date_format=”M j” categories=”off” comments=”off” featured_image=”off” 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border_radii_phone=”on|0px|0px|0px|0px” border_radii_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”1.13rem” text_line_height=”1.75rem” custom_margin=”-18px||2px|||” custom_padding=”||7px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”||7px||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”|15px||15px|false|true” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” text_font_size_tablet=”1.13rem” text_font_size_phone=”0.9rem” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Townhouses, stacked townhouses and other forms of low-rise apartments such as duplexes are part of the “missing middle.”<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||39px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” 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July 1, 2022, Toronto<\/a> saw a net outflow of 228,169 intraprovincial migrants, according to Toronto Metropolitan University\u2019s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development (CUR).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#edf7f3″ custom_padding=”32px||32px||true|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||25px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#38505b” header_2_font_size=”2.63rem” header_2_line_height=”3.75rem” max_width=”800px” module_alignment=”center” header_2_font_size_tablet=”32px” header_2_font_size_phone=”27px” 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text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_2_font_size_tablet=”36px” header_2_font_size_phone=”25px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cThe central part of Toronto attracts a lot of people \u2014 particularly younger people \u2014 but there are other people moving out, and I suspect the people who are moving out are looking for lower-density housing and they\u2019re more likely to be couples with kids,\u201d Frank Clayton, a senior research fellow at the CUR and co-author of the report, tells Wahi. <\/span>\u201cMiddle-income people are the ones moving out, so that has significant implications for our society \u2014 and Toronto,\u201d he adds, mentioning heightened wealth disparity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overall, Toronto lost more residents to intraprovincial migration than any other Ontario census division that recorded a net decline from 2017 to 2022:<\/span><\/p>\n The CUR report points out that the three largest net losses were found within the GTA (Toronto, Peel, and York) and provides insights into how high housing costs and the limited availability of certain types of homes underlies the trend. \u201cThe deterioration in the affordability of single-detached and semi-detached houses and the low production of potential substitutes like townhouses, stacked townhouses and other forms of low-rise apartments (so-called missing middle housing) within the GTA are likely contributors to these population flows,\u201d reads the report, also co-authored by Nigel Alphonso, a CUR research assistant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” height=”30px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”21px” text_line_height=”1.6em” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_font_size=”36px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” header_3_font_size=”1.25rem” 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American architect Daniel Parolek coined the term in 2010 to describe housing types that fall somewhere between detached single-family houses and mid-rise buildings. Missing middle advocates say local zoning policies too often interfere with the construction of these housing types, instead protecting existing single-family properties from even minimal forms of intensification or encouraging much denser development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Whereas <\/span>inter<\/span><\/i>provincial migration captures moves across provincial borders, the <\/span>intra<\/span><\/i>provincial figure is based on the difference between the number of people who moved to Toronto from other parts of the province and the number of people who left the city for elsewhere in Ontario. Basically, it means more Ontarians are leaving Toronto than entering it<\/span>. (It does not capture immigration, a major growth driver that is forecast to help bring the GTA’s population to more than 10 million by 2046<\/a>, up from 7.1 million in 2021.)<\/p>\n“We anticipate the net outflow of residents from the GTA will persist over the next decade.”<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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