Will taxing Toronto’s 65K vacant homes help with affordability?

Mayor John Tory is asking city staff to investigate the impact of taxing homes that sit vacant as a way of making more homes available and cooling Toronto’s red-hot real estate market — an idea the provincial finance minister seems open to, as well.

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