{"id":30823,"date":"2025-06-09T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-9-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T06:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:55:25","slug":"news-roundup-for-june-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for June 9, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">A fast-track housing program that has helped thousands of homeless Torontonians is being cut in half by the City; construction underway at deeply affordable housing project in Kensington Market; Toronto housing among the least affordable on this global index, with a look at what experts say needs to change; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/a-fast-track-housing-program-has-helped-thousands-of-homeless-torontonians-so-why-is-the\/article_de995ef7-4d14-4a62-8586-61df74a3f4da.html\" target=\"_blank\">A fast-track housing program has helped thousands of homeless Torontonians. So why is the city cutting it in half?<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/deeply-affordable-housing-project-kensington-1.7553196\" target=\"_blank\">Construction underway at deeply affordable housing project in Kensington Market<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/toronto-housing-among-least-affordable-on-this-global-index-heres-what-experts-say-needs-to-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto housing among least affordable on this global index. Here\u2019s what experts say needs to change<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/anishnawbe-health-toronto-new-indigenous-health-centre-1.7553777\" target=\"_blank\">Anishnawbe Health Toronto celebrates grand opening of new Indigenous health centre<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/06\/06\/toronto-briefly-records-worlds-worst-air-quality-as-it-continues-to-see-effects-from-wildfire-smoke\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto briefly records world\u2019s worst air quality as it continues to see effects from wildfire smoke<\/a> (CP24)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>fbq('init', '1760257484204295');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2025\/06\/news-roundup-june-9-2025.58738\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A fast-track housing program that has helped thousands of homeless Torontonians is being cut in half by the City; &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for June 9, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-9-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for June 9, 2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-toronto","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}