Housing
An approval isn't a move-in.
HousingTO reports 33,198 approvals toward its target. Follow the separate steps from permission to occupancy.
Explore the issues.
Housing, storefronts, jobs and the TTC all have numbers worth checking. Choose a question below; each read links to the figures and discussions behind it.
Start with a question.
These are the main threads across the site. Each opens the relevant section.
TTC
What a streetcar wait feels like.
Riders describe bunching and long gaps. On-time percentages can't show every wait at a stop.
Local business
What does the active-business count show?
Toronto counted 1,885 fewer active businesses than a year earlier. That net change needs a closer look.
Jobs
A one-year rebound and a three-year gap.
Toronto metro unemployment improved, but the employment rate remains below its earlier reading. Compare the same months.
Safety
What a city safety ranking can miss.
A national poll and a police-reported crime index answer different questions about Toronto.
Housing
Which homes count toward the target?
HousingTO covers approved rent-controlled, affordable, rent-geared-to-income and supportive homes, not every new home.
TTC
Safety on the ride, help in a crisis.
Two rider discussions put exposure to drug use and the need for care in the same frame.
Neighbourhoods
The block outside the storefront.
Accounts from workers and residents raise questions about shop entrances, park routes and shared facilities.
Reading the data
Five questions for a reassuring headline.
Check who was counted, what was measured and whether the headline describes the result people need.
Local business
Patio fees, parking and downtown foot traffic.
Restaurant and Chinatown discussions put actual operating decisions behind the citywide total.
Public spending
What would a barrier pilot prevent?
The TTC's partial platform-barrier pilot has a cost. The useful test is what changes after installation.
TTC
Who answered the safety survey?
The TTC's customer survey measures surveyed riders. It can't describe people who stopped taking transit.
Open the sources.
City and national datasets sit beside public accounts. A comment describes an experience; it doesn't measure how often that experience occurs.
- City HousingTO dashboard ↗the approval measure and its scope
- City Economic Dashboard ↗the active-business series
- Statistics Canada labour table ↗comparable metro employment measures
- City transit safety data ↗TTC offences, calls and customer survey results
- Toronto riders on streetcar timing ↗accounts of bunching and long waits
- Toronto riders on substance use ↗accounts and responses from riders
- Chinatown parking discussion ↗business concerns and alternative views on access
- CaféTO fee discussion ↗one restaurant owner's bill and the debate around it