{"id":30977,"date":"2025-06-19T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-19-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:17:34","slug":"news-roundup-for-june-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-19-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for June 19, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Ontario wants to remove urban design from development applications, but Toronto\u2019s chief planner thinks that\u2019s a mistake; tunnel connecting UP Express to TTC&#8217;s Dundas West station under construction after long delay; middle-income earners increasingly looking to leave Toronto, according to report; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/ontario-wants-to-remove-urban-design-from-development-applications-torontos-chief-planner-thinks-thats-a\/article_c2584c2d-af30-491d-8023-b0022a7c2e50.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario wants to remove urban design from development applications. Toronto\u2019s chief planner thinks that\u2019s a mistake<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/up-express-ttc-tunnel-1.7563769\" target=\"_blank\">Tunnel connecting UP Express to TTC&#8217;s Dundas West station under construction after long delay<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/06\/18\/middle-income-earners-increasingly-looking-to-leave-toronto-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middle income earners increasingly looking to leave Toronto: report<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/despite-lower-rents-many-tenants-report-spending-less-on-food-and-taking-on-credit-card\/article_f9187a63-f445-42b7-97ff-130e3ab35972.html\" target=\"_blank\">Despite lower rents, many tenants report spending less on food and taking on credit card debt to make ends meet<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/06\/17\/down-the-throats-of-the-local-residents-neighbours-protest-gerrard-st-shelter-as-city-advances-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Down the throats of the local residents:\u2019 Neighbours protest Gerrard St. shelter as city advances plan<\/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-19-2025.58830\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Ontario wants to remove urban design from development applications, but Toronto\u2019s chief planner thinks that\u2019s a mistake; tunnel connecting &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for June 19, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-19-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for June 19, 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-30977","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\/30977","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=30977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}