"Soft densification" in Canada

Anastasia Touati (1) , Oliver Waine

1 LATTS - Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés

Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies to encourage the creation of "accessory apartments" or "secondary suites" - in other words, new dwellings within single-family homes. Anastasia Touati analyses the advantages, as well as the ambiguities, of this novel form of residential densification.

Mots clés: housing; density; housing estates; densification; subdivisions; crisis; affordable housing; Canada

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Science politique; Géographie

Anastasia Touati, Oliver Waine. "Soft densification" in Canada: The example of "accessory apartments" in Ontario. Métropolitiques, 2013. ⟨hal-00839539⟩