[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: 650 Parliament, real estate and housing, 514 Cherry, Bombardier

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• Gilbert Ngabo reports on the understandable frustration of the many hundreds of tenants of the St. James Town tower of 650 Parliament Street, left to collect their belongings in lines in the stifling heat after a 6-alarm fire and facing months of potential homelessness, over at the Toronto Star.


• blogTO notes that a majority of Torontonians are willing to imagine moving to the suburbs on account of spiraling real estate prices.


• Are the affordable housing programs being put forward by John Tory and Jennifer Keesmaat plausible? The Toronto Star considers.


• Steve Munro notes that the 514 Cherry streetcar route is now no more, merged into others.


• The four Bombardier streetcars damaged by recent flooding in Toronto will be out of service for months as they are cleaned and repaired. CBC reports.