[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Sunrise Propane, housing, #towaterfront, Quayside, Flemingdon Park

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• Aaron D'Andrea notes that, a decade after the massive explosion in Downsview that tore apart north Toronto's Sunrise Propane, the space is still vacant. The Toronto Star has it.


• Richard Florida offers a short list of suggestions to ease the affordable housing crisis in Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.


• Deborah de Lange argues convincingly, at The Conversation, that Toronto needs a much more architecturally and aesthetically sensitive approach to its waterfront, that it needs beauty down by Lake Ontario.


• Amanda Roth at The Logic reports on the continued bureaucratic fighting over the future of Quayside.


• Some tenants in Flemingdon Park, inspired by news from Parkdale, embarked on a rent strike in protest of hikes in rent. The Toronto Star reports.