Affordable Housing - Page 3

Djeffery · #41 Posted **Jun 14, 2025, 8:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

The City already knows that either they are going to have to clean up the site themselves or sell the lot for a song and letting the developer do it. It's far better to let the developer do it because no developer is going to spend that amount of money and then let it sit as a parking lot ala Farhi.

Yes, there certainly aren't any other examples in town of the city selling a property for nothing and letting the new owner clean it up *cough*McCormicks *cough*.

The problem here is, as jammer says, if this parking lot is flood plain and development will be difficult to get passed, despite and examples in recent history of flooding actually happening there, what can be done with it and how much is the city going to spend to clean it up without being able to make money back on it?

jammer139 · #42 Posted **Jun 18, 2025, 12:10 PM**

OEV parking lot planning advised to slow down while Ridout and Horton still moving.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/ci...lan-in-oev-but-full-speed-ahead-in-soho/

jammer139 · #43 Posted **Jun 20, 2025, 8:21 PM**

LFP article on concepts for Fairmount PS property.

Interesting note:
An affordable housing development would be served by a new road. The plan takes in the closed Bob Hayward YMCA, but McAlister said there are no plans for the building as of now and the YMCA maintains ownership of the property.

Also noting plans to widen Hamilton Rd but no mention of how far east the widening would go. Ideally Hamilton Rd should be widened to where it joins Commissioners Rd but that would require the Thames River bridge to be widened or replaced and the Pottersburg Creek bridge to be widened or replaced. A good first phase would be to widen Hamilton up to the new Gore Rd roundabout planned sometime in the future.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/apartments-townhomes-park-eyed-for-london-fairmont-school

jammer139 · #44 Posted **Jun 25, 2025, 11:54 AM**

Mayor says they have 3 proposals so far for housing on the Ridout and Horton parking lot property.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/re...paves-way-for-parking-lots-into-housing/

inimrepus · #45 Posted **Jun 25, 2025, 2:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by jammer139

Mayor says they have 3 proposals so far for housing on the Ridout and Horton parking lot property.]

That's going to annoy a lot of people when Knights games are on. That parking lot completely fills up.

bolognium · #46 Posted **Jun 25, 2025, 3:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by inimrepus

That's going to annoy a lot of people when Knights games are on. That parking lot completely fills up.

Surface parking lots suck. That lot might fill up a few times a month, but most days it's a big empty hole on the edge of downtown. We need to keep encouraging development on lots like this one so the City can more easily make the case for a proper downtown parking garage.

If people want to see Knights games they'll find another place to park, or better yet, find another way downtown. Catering to suburbanites driving habits and their expectations of convenience is a losing battle for any downtown.

inimrepus · #47 Posted **Jun 25, 2025, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by bolognium

Surface parking lots suck. That lot might fill up a few times a month, but most days it's a big empty hole on the edge of downtown. We need to keep encouraging development on lots like this one so the City can more easily make the case for a proper downtown parking garage.

If people want to see Knights games they'll find another place to park, or better yet, find another way downtown. Catering to suburbanites driving habits and their expectations of convenience is a losing battle for any downtown.

I don't disagree that surface parking lots suck, but the city should be create the solutions before creating the problem. We don't have the public transit infrastructure to get people downtown for events, currently there aren't options other than driving.

I would love for the city to build a parking garage to replace a few surface lots, but that should be done before removing the surface lots. Also it is a lot more than just a few times a month that that lot fills up, it is every Knight's home game and any other sold out event.

Djeffery · #48 Posted **Jun 25, 2025, 9:10 PM**

I suspect that's one of the cheapest lots to park in which would be one reason why it fills up. It's obviously convenient for people in the west end to get out of there as well, which would be another reason it's full. I suspect there are lots of other lots to park in that maybe cost more. The last 2 events I went to at CLP, I parked in the Renaissance tower across the road, and down in the lot beside Call the Office. That lot wasn't full, and this was a full concert.

MrSlippery519 · #49 Posted **Jun 26, 2025, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Djeffery

I suspect that's one of the cheapest lots to park in which would be one reason why it fills up. It's obviously convenient for people in the west end to get out of there as well, which would be another reason it's full. I suspect there are lots of other lots to park in that maybe cost more. The last 2 events I went to at CLP, I parked in the Renaissance tower across the road, and down in the lot beside Call the Office. That lot wasn't full, and this was a full concert.

This is why, I think its $6 or $7 which is cheap. It is also easier to get out of downtown quick so while its a short walk compared to the closer parking that is likely $20 most people part there as you said especially if you are living in the west end.

A development would be great there,

jammer139 · #50 Posted **Jul 16, 2025, 5:09 PM**

Lots of work continues on the former IBM office building conversion on Dufferin Ave. They have started delivering the single piece shower/bath units. Many of the new windows are now installed and a lot of the interior rough ins are progressing fast.

jammer139 · #51 Posted **Jul 22, 2025, 12:05 AM**

Committee to look at $3.1M loan program vs funding homeless shelter programs.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/city...-housing-loan-program-amid-shelter-needs

jammer139 · #52 Posted **Jul 31, 2025, 12:04 AM**

Good news with tiny home project announced south of Parkwood Hospital for Veterans.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lond...tiny-homes-village-for-homeless-veterans

MolsonExport · #53 Posted **Jul 31, 2025, 6:15 PM**

not quite tiny homes, but in a circle not too far from my neighborhood, the homes are smallish on undersized lots. You can pack in 2-3 times more homes.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Olympi..._ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Djeffery · #54 Posted **Aug 1, 2025, 12:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

not quite tiny homes, but in a circle not too far from my neighborhood, the homes are smallish on undersized lots. You can pack in 2-3 times more homes.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Olympi..._ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

My wife and I looked on this street for our first home when we got married 30 years ago. Many of them were built by Norquay, which is who we ended up buying from in east London when they built a few dozen homes on Fleming Drive (the site of the infamous St Patricks Day riot - fortunately after we had moved away).

jammer139 · #55 Posted **Aug 26, 2025, 2:27 AM**

Office to Residential conversion about to open on the former law office at 376 Richmond St which has been converted into 23 studio and one-bedroom apartments at lower than market rates.

https://www.376lofts.com/

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lond...to-open-in-under-a-year?itm_source=index

jammer139 · #56 Posted **Sep 7, 2025, 11:54 AM**

Housing incentive program proving popular. Nice recent photo of progres on former IBM building on Dufferin.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lond...-city-seeks-9-5m-top-up?itm_source=index

jammer139 · #57 Posted **Oct 2, 2025, 7:37 PM**

Looks like the City is hitting the brakes on moving ahead with turning the Municipal parking lot on Queens in OEV into affordable housing. Sounds like alot of push back from folks and the BIA.

https://pub-london.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=119070

update:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/wo...t-more-people-to-visit-old-east-village/

jammer139 · #58 Posted **Oct 7, 2025, 7:27 PM**

Micro Shelters location announced.

Sixty modular shelters are proposed for the city-owned property, northeast of the Max Brose Drive and Cheese Factory Road intersection – a sparsely populated area near the city’s southeastern edge.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/wher...helters-london-homeless?itm_source=index

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/he...micro-shelter-could-be-located-1.7653167

jammer139 · #59 Posted **Oct 8, 2025, 3:35 PM**

LFP article on latest on the OEV Parking Lot affordable proposal.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/city...arking-lot-into-housing?itm_source=index

jammer139 · #60 Posted **Nov 9, 2025, 7:19 PM**

Have started to finish off the trim around the new windows on the south and west side of the former IBM building. Still have the north facade to start on and final exterior trim around the entrance and ground floor.