The Globe and Mail

Two architects' vision of demolishing the shabby garages that line Toronto's maze of laneways and replacing them with cleverly designed, tidy little housing units throws down the gauntlet to a new city government with a stated policy of increasing affordable housing and "densifying" downtown.

Architect Terence Van Elslander and Jeffery Stinson, an architect who also teaches the discipline at the University of Toronto, have delivered a thick report, complete with four housing prototypes, that calls for loosening city regulations that block the building of housing units behind existing houses.