One of the things I included in my list of "how to improve the feasibility of infill housing" was the adoption of single-stair buildings. So today I'm happy to share that next week the Canadian Urban Institute — in collaboration with LGA Architectural Partners — will be hosting a series of online micro-conferences covering this topic. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you'll know that LGA is one of the leading voices, if not the leading voice, advocating for this important building code change.

Here are the event posters:

And here are the links if you'd like to register for any of the sessions:

• Single Stair Sessions Day 1 — "The 3 Ps: Pilot Projects and Prototypes"

• Single Stair Sessions Day 2 — "The 2 Ss: Safety and Sustainability"

• CityTalk | Live — "Addressing Canada's Housing Supply: Can Regulations Drive Housing Innovation?"

We are actively underwriting new missing middle housing across central Toronto. And I can tell you that project feasibility would benefit enormously from this code change. Single-stair buildings are also allowed in many/most other parts of the world, and so we already know that it can make for better homes and that it doesn't need to compromise life safety. It's great that the city-building community is now increasingly focused on this opportunity.

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