[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Yonge Street, rent-to-own, Gebrewihot, fare evasion, Faith Goldy

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• Urban Toronto shares a photo of Yonge Street from only three years ago, one showing visibly fewer skyscrapers.


• The rent-to-own program being proposed by Jennifer Keesmat, aiming to help more people become property owners, sounds nice but also sounds like it would heighten housing market pressures. blogTO reports.


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• Toronto Life shares some remarkable photos by Anthony Gebrewihot of prominent Scarborough artists taken on the new subway extension.


• Tricia Wood at Spacing argues that arresting people for fare evasion reveals a degree of structural racism that Toronto, to name one city, should fight against.


• Michael Coren at NOW Toronto takes a very critical look on Faith Goldy, the most prominent personality on the alt-right here in Toronto.