Multi-storey underground basements for Toronto’s rich? That’ll only dig us all deeper into our climate change hole

Subterranean millionaires. This is what it’s come to in Toronto’s wildly unbalanced and increasingly wacky housing market. This week Toronto city council adopted a motion introduced by Coun. Jaye Robinson (Ward 15, Don Valley West) to assess the impacts of so-called iceberg houses in the city, “single-family detached dwellings,” the motion reads, “with large, multi-storey underground basements that protrude significantly beyond the surface footprint of the building.”-- More...