Launched «Neighbors for Neighborhoods» in August 2016, a $ 4 million pilot program that will enable land banks to provide subsidies for local community members to take over individual, abandoned properties and convert them into long -
term affordable rental units.
Banning them from short -
term rentals was meant to preserve scarcely
affordable units for Toronto's ultratight long -
term rental market, which has a vacancy rate of less than 1 percent.