Garden suites were supposed to increase housing density in Toronto, but city data shows people aren't building them. Toronto amended zoning two years ago to allow garden suites on most residential ...

Garden suites were pitched as a way to expand Toronto’s housing options by building secondary homes on already existing residential properties, but a year after they were made legal in the city, not a ...

When Toronto city council passed a bylaw in February that would allow garden suites, that sounded like the perfect solution. A garden suite is "usually located in the backyard of an existing ...

In an effort to ease the congestion, Toronto began allowing residents to build “garden suites” — defined as “self-contained living accommodations in rear yards” — on their properties ...

Given how heavily officials discussed the potential of garden suites in Toronto, it's surprising how little has changed since the alternative housing type was finally made legal in the city in 2022.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps expects to see many more people coming through the doors of City Hall to get permission to build garden suites in their backyards. Regardless of whether her prediction ho ...

Garden suites were supposed to increase housing density in Toronto, but city data shows people aren't building them. Toronto amended zoning two years ago to allow garden suites on most residential ...