PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD FROM BEING UPZONED

Certain real estate platforms and professionals are openly encouraging the purchase and conversion of single-family homes into multiplexes through upzoning. These changes are marketed as "gentle density," but their impact on communities is anything but gentle:

• Property values decline for surrounding homes

• Streets face congestion, noise, and infrastructure strain

• Neighbourhood identity is lost as original homes are replaced by high-density builds

One such platform, https://www.torontostandard.co/, actively promotes upzoning opportunities across Toronto. While it presents these as real estate solutions, for many long-time residents, these listings signal the start of disruptive changes that reduce quality of life and community cohesion.

This is not organic growth — it is planned transformation for private gain, with long-term consequences for everyone else on the street.

We urge your association to:

• Share this alert with your members

• Monitor listings and developer activity in your area

• Join and support our city-wide petition: NoMultiplexesInToronto

Residents have a right to shape the future of their communities. Let’s stand together to protect the homes, families, and neighbourhoods that define Toronto.

Share and Sign the petition today to protect your neighbourhood

CANADIAN HOUSING MARKET IS NEARING COLLAPSE

Canada’s Housing Market Is Nearing Collapse—And Local Legislation May Be the Tipping Point

Canada’s real estate market is flashing red like never before, and the cause might not be what you think.

The Canadian Real Estate Association’s latest data reveals that the sales-to-new listings ratio (SNLR) plunged to 49.3% in June—the weakest demand balance for this month since 1995, when Canada was deep in the throes of its most brutal housing crash in modern memory.

But it’s not just the level that’s shocking—it’s the pace of collapse. The SNLR has now dropped for four consecutive Junes, free-falling nearly 24 points from its pandemic peak. Supply is rising, but buyers are vanishing.

And here’s the twist: this is happening during a period of record immigration, with over 2.5 million newcomers arriving in the last two years alone. We’re supposed to be in a housing shortage. So why are homes sitting on the market longer than ever?

Yes, cost of living and high interest rates are part of the story—but there’s a deeper, more insidious force driving investor flight: municipal overreach and unpredictable local legislation.

Across cities like Toronto and Vancouver, governments have rushed to pass radical housing reforms like sixplex and multiplex zoning “as of right”, stripping away community input and fast-tracking high-density infill construction without proper market analysis.

This legislative over-correction was meant to solve the housing crisis—but instead, it’s spooking private capital. Investors, the very people needed to build the supply Canada desperately requires, are pulling out in fear. Why? Because when local governments move the goalposts overnight, long-term investments become unpredictable—and unviable.

The result? A chilling effect on development, stagnating new builds, and a further deepening of the affordability crisis. The irony is painful: in an effort to “fix” the market through aggressive policies, governments may be accelerating the next major housing collapse.

This isn’t just a housing issue anymore—it’s an economic emergency in the making. With buyer demand evaporating, investor confidence shaken, and affordability shattered, Canada could be on the verge of a housing crash worse than the 1990s.

If local governments don’t recalibrate fast—and restore confidence to the market—the housing crisis will no longer be about too few homes. It will be about a market that no one wants to touch.

UPDATE : Sixplexes Allowed in Just 9 Wards 

After hours of intense debate, Toronto City Council did NOT approve city-wide sixplexes.

Instead, councillors passed a compromise motion, allowing sixplexes in just 9 of the city’s 25 wards:

Wards where sixplexes are now allowed:

Ward 4 – Parkdale–High Park
Ward 9 – Davenport
Ward 10 – Spadina–Fort York
Ward 11 – University–Rosedale
Ward 12 – Toronto–St. Paul’s
Ward 13 – Toronto Centre
Ward 14 – Toronto–Danforth
Ward 19 – Beaches–East York
Ward 23 – Scarborough North (pilot already in place)

Councillors in the remaining 16 wards now have the option to “opt in”, meaning sixplexes are not yet permitted unless their councillor decides to request it.

Coun. Gord Perks, who reluctantly put forward this limited motion, admitted:

“I’ve been unable to find majority support for city-wide sixplexes.”
Meanwhile, councillors like Stephen Holyday pushed back hard, calling it “selling out the residents for money.”

We agree.

This partial approval still puts enormous pressure on existing infrastructure, raises land values, and incentivizes speculative development that threatens affordability and community stability.

This is not over. The door is still open for city-wide implementation unless we stay vocal.

What you can do next:

Contact your councillor if you're in one of the 16 remaining wards—tell them NOT to opt in.
Share the petition with friends and neighbours.

Toronto families deserve thoughtful planning—not piecemeal policies pushed by developers.

Thank you for standing with us.

THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF TORONTO'S NEW SIXPLEX LEGISLATION

• Property values will crater

• NO Tenant Caps = Sardine Housing

• Developers will gut communities.

• The Government...and therefore your tax dollars are footing the risk

• This will create a Domino effect across the country

City Councillors who voted in favour for Sixplex Legislation.

These are the councillors that voted to allow multiplexes to be built in your neighbourhood. They want sixplexes to also be approved in your backyard. Let them know that this will be a major issue in the 2026 election and that it is not too late to go in a different direction!

Is this going to be good for you and for the value of your home? Is this democratic? The clear answer is NO. It will only worsen the growing problems with traffic, parking, community services and infrastructure.

See below the link to each of their offices – send them a message and let them know you are unhappy and want other options to be presented prior to the next election or else it will become a pivotal election issue.

Call or Email your Councillors TODAY.

Toronto City Hall is about to light a match under its residential neighbourhoods—and call it housing reform.

City council is moving to approve as-of-right zoning for fiveplexes and sixplexes in every low-rise neighbourhood across Toronto. That means developers can throw up multi-unit complexes on any single-family lot—no rezoning, no case-by-case evaluation, no community say. Just file your papers and build.

What is a sixplex? It's a detached house chopped into six individual units. Think of it like cramming six families into what was once one home—with no upper limit on how many people can live in each unit.

City planners call it “gentle density.” That’s a lie. This is an aggressive, top-down restructuring of your neighbourhood—pushed by developers and rubber-stamped by ideologues who haven’t protected a single thing worth preserving in this city for the past 20 years.

Let’s talk about what this really means.

1. Property values will crater.
   If your million-dollar bungalow now sits next to a three-storey sixplex swarming with tenants, good luck selling your house at full value. Buyers don’t want to pay premium prices to live next door to a revolving door of short-term renters, constant noise, parking chaos, and privacy loss—and while this description may be a generalization, it’s a fair one. This isn’t housing evolution—it’s economic sabotage for existing homeowners.

2. No tenant caps = sardine housing.
   Currently, there’s no restriction on how many people can live in each unit. That means you could have 30+ people packed into one sixplex. In this case, you’re not getting a duplex full of nice young families, you’re getting corporate rooming houses to maximize developer profits while minimizing the cost of living for renters.

3. Developers will gut communities.
   Once the market figures out how profitable this is—especially with as-of-right zoning—speculative developers will start making cash offers to homeowners, often below market, and then flood the area with sixplexes. One by one, residents will cave as their neighbourhoods deteriorate and their homes lose value. This is slow-motion expropriation by capital.

4. Government is footing the risk.
   Here’s the real kicker: the feds are subsidizing this madness. Through the Housing Accelerator Fund and CMHC, developers are being handed interest-free loans with just 5% down. That means a developer could put down $500,000 for a $10 million loan, pay themselves $1 million in “management fees,” and walk away if the project flops. No buyer? No problem. Just hand the keys to the bank and keep the cash. The taxpayer eats the loss.

That’s not housing—it’s white-collar looting.

5. A domino effect across the country.
   Federal dollars are now tied to how many new units a city can jam through zoning. So guess what happens next? Now that Toronto’s getting hundreds of millions, surrounding cities like Mississauga, Brampton, and Hamilton will copy-paste the policy. Urban sprawl meets vertical density meets total collapse of any planning integrity.

This isn’t a housing strategy. It’s a panic move.

The sixplex push is a desperate overcorrection after decades of failure. The same governments that refused to build proper transit, blocked market-driven supply, and taxed new development into the ground are now trying to retrofit the problem by gutting neighbourhoods and greenlighting chaos.

This is not how you solve a housing crisis. It’s how you destroy stable communities and rig the system for short-term developer profit while homeowners—who built equity, paid taxes, and raised families here—are left holding the bag.

Toronto is not a lab experiment. It’s a city. And city planning should be about balance, not bulldozers. If City Council passes this sixplex scheme next week (which they will), it will mark the beginning of the end for Toronto’s low-rise neighbourhoods as we know them. Not because change is bad, but because this kind of reckless, subsidized overbuild is worse.

Don't be fooled. This isn’t about “housing equity.” It’s about power, money, and forcing you out.