Councillor for Ward 39 Scarborough-Agincourt Jim Karygiannis, stands in front of a house which has been cited with a zoning bylaw for operating as a rooming house. City staff will recommend rooming houses across the city be licensed, after a 2015 Toronto Rooming House Review found hundreds of illegal ones “failed to meet reasonable standards.”
Metro News September 22, 2016 May Warren
Coun. Jim Karygiannis is concerned home ownership is out of reach for younger generations, and thinks a foreign ownership tax is possible solution.
Global News September 16, 2016 Peter Kim
Early cost estimates put the price tag for Rail Deck Park, an ambitious elevated green space over the rail tracks between Bathurst Street and Blue Jays Way, at $1.05 billion dollars.
Scarborough Mirror September 21, 2016 Mike Adler
As its real estate market stays piping hot, a Toronto councillor is asking people whether the city should use Vancouver-style measures to cool it.
Scarborough Mirror September 21, 2016 Mike Adler
As its real estate market stays piping hot, a Toronto councillor is asking people whether the city should use Vancouver-style measures to cool it.
Jim Karygiannis started by asking his own Scarborough-Agincourt constituents whether Toronto should tax foreign buyers of its homes.
New August record for home sales in GTA
Toronto Sun September 7, 2016 Maryam Shah
TORONTO – Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area hit a record last month as fewer home owners put their properties up for sale, the city’s real estate board said Wednesday.
CBC News Aug 25, 2016
Toronto’s preservation board voted unanimously Thursday not to pursue an official designation of Scarborough’s Vimy oaks as a historic site.
Scarborough experts ask Toronto panel to help protect Agincourt’s Vimy Oaks
Scarborough Mirror August 23, 2016 Mike Adler
TORONTO – Dozens of medical marijuana advocates finally had a chance to weigh in on Toronto’s pot dispensary regulations at an open forum at City Hall on Monday.
Toronto Star July 15, 2016 Ben Spurr
City council may have ended the debate over one controversial Scarborough subway this week, but the dispute over a second one may be heating up.
