Environment, Climate & Energy
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Enabling High-Performance Gentle Density: A practical guide for housing professionals
This guide tackles the technical realities you’re already facing: managing setbacks on lots with minimal buffer, weighing high-performance assemblies against usable…
A Voter’s Guide to Asking Candidates about Housing
This voter guide, developed by Small Housing and Strong Towns, gives residents ready-to-use questions to ask candidates at all-candidates meetings, on…
Considérations réglementaires relatives à la densification douce (2025)
Vous songez à offrir davantage d’options de logement à votre communauté ? Le Gentle Density Bylaw Guide – élaboré par Small…
Gentle Density Housing Bylaw Guide (2025)
Thinking about bringing more housing options to your community? The Gentle Density Bylaw Guide is your roadmap to making it happen.
Guidance Paper: Gentle Density & Energy Efficiency
This Small Housing Guidance Paper presents recommendations that will assist various actors involved in planning, designing and constructing energy efficient buildings.
Finding the Missing Middle in the GTHA: An Intensification Case Study of Mississauga (2018)
This study by Toronto Metropolitan University investigates the potential for infill development in Mississauga to accommodate the region’s population growth
Missing Middle Solutions Lab (2021)
This report from CMHC & Keesmaat Group looks to address some of the main land use policy, project financing and design…
Tiny Homes: An Alternative to Conventional Housing (2021)
This report explores the tiny home typology & means of regulating and legalizing this built form within the context of BC.