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May Warren

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May Warren is a reporter on the Star’s housing team. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Master of Journalism program, she first joined the Star as a summer intern in 2014. She then worked at the Guelph Mercury and Metro Toronto, before returning in 2018 as a breaking news reporter, covering stories including the Danforth shooting and the St. Michael's College School sexual assault investigation. Before joining the housing team, she spent two and a half years covering the pandemic, from the first days of the new virus in the city to the vaccine rollout. May is the winner of three Ontario Newspaper Awards, including general news feature for a story about a Guelph woman’s medically assisted death before that became legal. She was nominated as part of the Toronto Star team for a National Newspaper Award for coverage of the crash of Flight 752 in early 2020, and as part of the team for project of the year for a 2019 series on OHIP billing.

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Toronto

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Housing

Articles by May Warren

Architect Frank Gehry speaks at event to start construct of a new condominium residence in Toronto Wednesday.

Real Estate

‘The light is free.’ How Frank Gehry hopes his condo project will give back to his home city

As interest rates climbed, more new homeowners put their properties up for sale within a year of buying, Teranet found.

Real Estate

More Ontario homeowners sold within a year of buying as interest rates climbed, report finds

Adam Vincent McKinlay, right, holding Enika, 16 months, and spouse Lindsay Blackwell, holding Ellex, 4 months, fear they will be forced out of their rental home in the next few years and say the city’s housing crisis is their number one issue in the mayoral election.

GTA

‘It’s the number one issue for us’: Why renters could be a force in deciding Toronto’s mayoral race

A new report from RBC warns new building practices need to be adopted to avoid a glut of greenhouse gas emissions from the building of new homes.

GTA

Canada’s housing goals will spike greenhouse gas emissions, says RBC report

On Wednesday, Toronto council voted 18-7 to approve multiplex housing citywide — meaning duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes can be built in neighbourhoods previously reserved for single-family homes.

GTA

Getting approval to build a multiplex in some Toronto neighbourhoods was a process that could take years. Now it could take days

Tenants protest a condo developer’s application to demolish a rental building at 55 Brownlow Ave.

GTA

Toronto makes developers replace demolished rental units. The city fears the province plans to change that

The city may end up challenging owners it believes have not reported empty units, says one expert.

GTA